after Ocean Vuong

and why

this want

for permanence surround

sound my life with

backups

sound out my name and

it’s almost a library

flower pressed screen dazed

stillness

a twinkie and her

wrapper words

she presses in the shape of a

body I too

will one day

be glad I am

no longer

violet

and instead fertilizer

no mama’s memoir

no

mama to read my

memoir will be

ocean

open ooooo like whale sounds

I will linger forever in the

aqua

uh huh I used to be

fern

now I’m

feather my body retreats

for

ever/y line I write I

forget my hands can strangle

recycle like

madness like magic

I immortalize the white I

wrangle

with pen body

oh

body

earth will ground us

whole

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Fiona Martinez called us from San Diego, CA.

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