Count by Valerie Martínez

Count by Valerie Martínez

Author:Valerie Martínez [Martínez, Valerie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE023030 Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Nature, POE005070 Poetry / American / Hispanic American
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2021-08-30T00:00:00+00:00


the building, wander to the back where dioramas display

creatures so fantastical—fingerprint cyphoma, rainbow

wrasse—I feel an opening, wide, imagine Spider Woman

and the clans actually listen to Sotuknang, abandon

the assault on ice and mountain, walk away

from the back door to the Fourth World.

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At the crest we find a rocky perch to eat sandwiches,

share a leftover slice of chocolate cake, anticipate

the long bath after the descent, kneesache, therapeutic

heat, sheen on Paul’s neck and back as I lather



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