“allow myself an ounce of temptation, / run finger over ragged cuticle and think of my tongue running / along her nail bed”

The Vegetarian

Dating in the Apocalypse Bunker

“Here are gates with welcoming arms, drapes, gardens // that are all swings and slides.”

“in the tree are three buds / one will flower into a poem / eat the other two”

“But I know you’re listening, / From the pale blue waves on the monitor / That I ride.”

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Two poems by Karla Yaritza Maravilla Zaragoza.
“it began with silk / devils bleaching brown kernels and selling bottled ice / tea”

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“My motorcycle’s thrum as much the music / as bees in the embattled thistledown, the wild // stonefruits erupting from mouthed cores”