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Dennis Hernandez Jan 2020
Sprout your wings
They’re a sky,
A guise that
Holds you down.

(Words are only weighed and written
To carry our attention,
Else like the paper
We would fly away.)

Some Hummingbird
Humming its say;

All the poetry is up for grabs,
Only a translation from
Thin air to modern day.

And soon the condolences to
the skies
Will stop,
And as there is none for me,
Soon there will be no hum for the wind.

As if to simply
Acknowledge our presence
I flew by.

Looking through the window,
I saw him lying there
In his coffin.
Dressed to impress
Royal fools and vermin
In disguise.

We are scavengers
Picketing at dead religion,
Eating what is left -
We are left.

Niche-nest negated,
I will make a nest
Of my heart.
I will steal the spider's web
Whose absence is dismissed
Whose silence is understood
Whose presence is disagreeable.
And one day birds will fly
And lay their eggs in yours.

These hummers will fly blindly and without direction,
And though they'll find another nest,
Save the nest that is
This poem.
Dennis Hernandez Jan 2020
The face
That says it all
But gives nothing,
That went to hell,
But didn’t come back,
Knows all languages
But speaks none,
Traveled all depths -
Not once in motion,
Sees right through you
But needs no eyes.

Puffing and puffing
The cigarette is delighted,
Youth burnt off
The face.
Dennis Hernandez Jan 2020
The decaying voices
Of a prospering city
Cough up nuggets
They then spit
At the ring fingers
Of confrontations
Not yet met with love
But with lust.

A narrative
Told all at once
By everyone
To no one.

The old
Life on a dead
Man
Who keeps
Throwing a look
At me
Bleeds through
Anew.
And I
Can only hope
Our eyes
Do not mirror.

A cheap cigar
That claimed your throat,
Held you by the finger tips
The way the bank clerk
Held the pen
For your disapproval.
Your unsuccessful
Yet prompt
Promotion of being.

Rhythms
Of a swayed
Populous,
Sway us no more.

— The End —