To taste the earth before it falls I don’t want tenderness In dark water, all lit up There is something sort of holy Beyond the hopeless years Different kinds of silence Illusions of beautiful light Where the road riverbanks into darkness Whatever, otherwise, comes out glowingNo fireflies in my jar
James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger, (Indolent Books, 2018) and All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Thrush Poetry, Corporeal, The Madrigal, Cleaver Magazine, Rust + Moth, Wrongdoing Magazine, The Lumiere Review, Sledgehammer Lit, and Resurrection Mag. They live in upstate New York.
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