Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparán

Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparán

Author:Aldo Amparán
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alice James Books


MISADVENTURE

To be born

Into the Río

Bravo’s current

When the moon

Is high & pink.

To be so small

& round Mother

Mistakes me

For a stone.

To grow up

Without a father.

To blame the fact

Of my faggotry

On being fatherless.

To thank God,

That infinite

Equation, for being

Fatherless.

To know Death

Has two gold teeth

In the front

Of his mouth.

To see him

The night my brother

In his glittering

Fever points

At the corner.

To that grin.

To love a man

Who is a father.

To share his mouth

With his wife.

For an instant.

To lose a friend,

The curving temple

Of his body.

To my touch.

To break

My small

Metacarpal

In a handshake.

I’ve lost four

Years in my hiding,

Two houses

To the smell

Of gunpowder,

A loved country

For safety.

I know Death

Is as fat, tall,

& white

As the edge

Of this page.



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