a garden of
bleeding parasols burning baldachins
crusting canopies
a kingdom of coiling blotches
spiraling like hurricanes across
the length of my spine
crumbling infrastructure
every night I lay on my wet mattress
both culprit and lover
only home left in this tropical gutter
above surviving splintered frame-
-ing the night universal tarp
weeping its misery onto my
ridge of flowering bones
a mildewed masterpiece
sole patch of fertile landscape
growing shade I used to know
the rivels of my roof
the folds of my back now
they are one and
the same
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Ana Portnoy Brimmer is a poet and performer, aspiring literary journalist, ARTivist, and Master’s student of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus, in Puerto Rico. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in a number of platforms, such as Kweli Journal, The Acentos Review, Moko Magazine, Under The Volcano/Bajo el Volcán: The Best of Our First Fifteen Years, Centro Journal, Global Voices, Counter Punch, Yale Global Online, among others. Ana is the daughter of Mexican-Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York, but was raised, and currently lives, in Puerto Rico.
Photo by Sushiesque.
