Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparán
Author:Aldo Amparán
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alice James Books
MISADVENTURE
To be born
Into the RÃo
Bravoâs 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.
Iâve 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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