<1. Swear>
Wishes in your eyelashes & you know it’s over,
She brushes your hair out of her dreams,
almost a cadence snore & wheeze,
like an old neighbor’s seashell wind-chime,
Wafting over a sky full of hope
Not all poetry fits inside a wine bottle,
sometime the grape must cut loose
There’s another moon in the other room,
let’s take ourselves a look-see,
other days by other names,
there the geese go,
fluttering away like a telegraph buzz
I’m missing all my bus-stops
taking it til the end of the line
You said her name was Chelsea
it was her sister who was Chloe
no, that was Zoe,
you said it was The Chelsea
it was really The Carlyle
you keep swearing it was Le Chateau
but I know it was on Catalina.
About the author:
Christian Garduno edited the writing compilation Evolver (2000) and his own solo poetry collection Face (2001) while a History undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. His work can also be read in Other Doors, Free Verse Revolution, A Cornered Gurl, Lit Up, Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen, We Will Not Be Silenced, P. S. I Love You, and Corpus Christi Writers 2019.
Christian Garduno lives and writes along the South Texas coast with his beautiful wife Nahemie & young son, Dylan.
Art: After the Rain by Alexey Adonin
In the artist's words:
An abstract-surrealist artist Alexey Adonin has dedicated over one and a half-decade to convey his vision of hidden otherworldly realms. Alexey believes that art is not only a way to express ourselves but also a unique key to unlocking the knowledge of the hidden world. In his creative endeavor, he tries to apply a more philosophical approach and to hint at the mystical origin of all things. Alexey mostly strives to get away from banal copying of reality, preferring instead to create one of his own—something that somehow reflects his inner world. Jerusalem, Israel