Let the Dead In by Saida Agostini

Author:Saida Agostini
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBTQ Poetry 
Carribbean & Latin American Poetry
Publisher: Alan Squire Publishing
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

chickenfoot loves

at age thirteen

his mummy, her face a waxing yellow moon, the chin

a dark field curled and twisted. every sunday

chickenfoot tends this garden with her, tweezers in hand

a slight silver mirror grasped in her palm the color

of ripe plantains hissing in a pan. each follicle loosed

from her flesh more stubborn than the next, black hair

encased in a bulb of white. chickenfoot loves her beard

and the flesh that rears it even when she weeps declares

herself too ugly to go to church and even look at god

curses her stubborn blood that makes new things

grow even when she has killed it with her own hands.

chickenfoot loves reginald from section k

their lips firm against each other in the one shadow

old lady wong’s house provided. the pleasure

their tongues reared in each other. chickenfoot loves

reginald even more when he and

a gang of boys beat him for walking too sweet to the

cricket field. the calls of faggot bleeding

through the air, chickenfoot’s fists joining with reginald’s

chest again and again. how reginald kept rising to his feet

stubborn and bold, till the boys left him be, and chickenfoot

leads him home, sat reginald down in his own bedroom

and wept before him, why ah hurt yuh? their hands

growing into each other, rushing to close the wound.

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