Poetry

mi inglés

by Marlena Maduro Baraf

no onion
no garlic
no potato
or tomato,
no microwave
no preambles
and follow ups
no gracefully replicating nouns and vowels, nouns
vowels and nouns
palabras y pensamientos,
la colina de los vientos
lamentaciones

yes, milk
yes, time
one spoon
one pink glove
one pop tart
one kiss
one book

blue sky
sun and star
burn
and heart

A bouquet of flowers
is overdressed,
give me
a single flower
un girasol

with an open face
like a plate

Appeared in Issue Spring '25