joshua-hernandez
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33 / M / Mexican
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City walk
we walk beneath the weight of the outside / birds sing in tune with the collective / & trees reveal their 50-year-old whispers
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Mar 31, 2021
Cotton Candy
I intend to love the air in my lungs — / as I wake. / Compelled to peer through coke bottle glasses of glitter.
17
Feb 7, 2013
Currents
Hold me in place / from the ocean / nothing but
8
Jul 25, 2014
Currents of Clay
The stream / Runs rough / Beyond the towers of brick and mortar
27
Feb 28, 2013
Depicting Temporality
"You need not worry about the silence." He used to say. Though most nights I lay awake hoping I'll never end up a rose or a daisy. / morbidly brittle / with their lack
19
Aug 29, 2014
Dirty Martini
* * * / Absorbing dust and Golden heat, / living more openly than I do,
21
Nov 11, 2017
Dry Soil
Bamboo spine / bones and all, / stand tall
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Aug 18, 2018
{fasten seat belts}
Don't give me that / Smack me with a brick / before you flash that
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Jul 24, 2014
Goldfish
The blood flowing through my heart tickles as I lay in bed. / I have one wish: to protect me from my head, swimming with scaly goldfish. / I think, I thought, I remember.
5
Aug 5, 2011
Heavy
Underwater we became / something in space, / a whisper unheard,
5
Sep 19, 2014
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