PANTOUM FOR 2 COWBOYS
Alexis Aceves Garcia
in this dream, we are boyfriends wearing cowboy hats
we meet in the town square to rub our gold belt buckles together
n while we dance a slow dance
the tips of our felt hats graze
we meet in the town square to rub our gold belt buckles together
the soft music of our want gravities us to the earth
n while we dance a slow dance
I pool open in temporal angst
the soft music of our want gravities us to the earth
Please give us more time
pool open in temporal angst
loose in the denim night
Please give us more time
to dance a slow dance
loose in the denim night
in this dream, we are boyfriends wearing cowboy hats
Alexis Aceves Garcia centers care in their work as a writer, co-curator of already felt: poems in revolt & bounty, and managing editor of Deem Journal. They are currently the steward of a heart-shaped hummingbird feeder in their Abuela’s backyard and an MFA in Writing student at UCSD. You can find their poems in The Hennepin Review, The Best of the Net Anthology 2022, Apogee Journal, Peach Mag, and The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNext, with poems forthcoming in beestung magazine.
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