Poets should attend conferencesDo not run from the rabbit in your chest. You have chosen this exhilaration.
poetry
Cailey Johanna
Denver, CO, United States
Selected work (8 publications)
Ofrendas for a countryI wanted to title this,
ofrendas for my country.
But the my sticks in my throat
like too thick atole.
poetry
But writers are grenades when they fall in loveSheltered behind pages
we can jump off balconies, sip coffee,
fall in and out of love until the sunsets
become cracked maps of poetry.
poetry
on finding out the nightmare is mei roll deeper into a sinkhole
of pillows and sheets. the corners are all pointed
in the wrong direction. beside me, you snore.
poetry