Four Poems | Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Two Drops
Taste of the bitter tears
here on the table. Who
is hungry for pain? Who
here on the table. Who
is hungry for pain? Who
wants to share this dessert?
Take two drops. It is less
heavy than sweet bread or
hope that never comes. If
it is too much for you,
you could leave. If you
could stomach one drop, this
longing will dissolve. You
and I can take the pain
of summer, fall, winter
and spring away. No more
pain, no more bitterness.
Here on this cold night in
the depths of despair a
black bird circles around.
It flies away singing.
If flies more distant and
almost out of sight. It
returns with more black birds
to feast on our pain.
*
Transatlantic Song
Singing child
voice of air and wind.
Night of stars
half-moon like a breast.
half-moon like a breast.
Evening birds
mimic the child’s song.
Ocean breeze
mimic the child’s song.
Ocean breeze
swirls and joins the birds.
Takes the child’s
song across the sea.
*
Shopping List
If I only had
remembered
the parsley,
there would
not be broken
dishes on
the kitchen
floor, those with
designs of
robins and
green vines.
There would be
no yelling back
and forth of a
thin thread
relationship.
Dinner would
be served.
The evening
would go on
merrily. Still
there is always
something else
that could go
wrong.
*
Marbles
A marble replaced his heart,
a black shiny marble small
as an eye. His feelings were
lacking; his speeches rolled
around not making sense.
His words rolled around in a
maze and could not find their
way out. Marbles replaced
his eyes, black shiny marbles
like coal. He could look at
the sun and not go blind. He
would look at things and not
see the beauty or the horror
in front of his marble eyes.
He could not feel love or
empathy in his marble heart.
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash
Bio:
Born in Mexico, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, lives in California and works in Los Angeles.
His poems have appeared in Blue Collar Review, Escape Into Life, Kendra Steiner Editions,
Mad Swirl, and Unlikely Stories. His latest poetry book, Make the Water Laugh was published
by Rogue Wolf Press
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