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Soraya Trevino-Ramirez

On Being Without You:


I had been a common

music, slow message.


Young, you strove for garden

tubers, fatter starch substitute,

exaggerate show presence &

                    vomit backstage.


I don't know how it is I have grown

so old without you, metal wire tugs,

baits twice, I will drink spools of wine

and wake each morning a fisherman

red.  I cannot count how many cups

it has held since lakes of algae water

have washed this devil's body green.


I had been a common

man, dead to food and of

lower color than black.



Lesson:


To tell a woman how


offer apple core, skin,

two fermented halves,

bring no wine, bring a

book, preferring Gid-

-eon bible or then a soft

back Ezra, let it serve

as cutting board, place

whole fruit, seeds too

in her mouth and again

              shut it.

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