drifts around
your tongue
littered with
souks, alleys
& nights
distilled
in silhouettes
expanding in
overlapping thumbprints
*
As always, thirst
levitates
through a garden
of hair
beyond navels
& beards
into an architecture
of curves
built for ablutions
& absolute surrender
Michael Caylo-Baradi lives where freeways drive over faultlines. His work has discoed or is about to cha-cha and tango in these venues: Blue Fifth Review, Blue Print Review, The Common, Eclectica, elimae, Eunoia Review, FORTH, Galatea Resurrects, Ink Sweat & Tears, Local Nomad, MiPOesias, Otoliths, Our Own Voice, poeticdiversity, and elsewhere. He has penned and penciled reviews and essays for New Pages, PopMatters, and The Latin American Review of Books. He is also an alumnus of The Writers’ Institute at The Graduate Center (CUNY).
