Bio: Maria Castro Dominguez is the author of 'A
Face in The Crowd' her Erbacce–press winning collection and ‘Ten Truths from
Wonderland’ (Hedgehog Poetry Press) a collaboration with poet Matt Duggan. She
was the winner of the third prize in Brittle Star´s Poetry Competition in 2018.
She was a finalist in the 2019 Stephen A DiBiase Poetry contest in NY and was
highly commended in the Borderlines Poetry Competition in 2020. Her poems have
appeared in many anthologies and journals such as Obsessed With Pipework,
Apogee, The Long-Islander Huntington Journal, Popshot, PANK, Empty Mirror, The
Chattahoochee Review and The Cortland Review.
A
miracle is to be
a bee
swimming in a garden
in a country
in a planet,
a royal
hoopoe singing
with its
sharp tweezer beak.
A
water-logged tortoise
treading on
sand, neck curving
out of her
shell, giving birth
to
perfectly round ping-pong-ball eggs.
A night
plane flying overhead
slicing a
star for a moment;
a plane
with a fly buzzing inside
travelling
to another hemisphere.
A miracle
is our belongings fitting
a case with
wheels,
for days,
for months and years
-wheels are
another miracle-
is tasting
the chocolate of a black sapote.
To touch
you and believe, to not
touch you
and still believe; a miracle
is to be
alive one second.
Refuse Sacks
They gave
me a transparent plastic bag
the last
things he wore while breathing;
navy-blue
pajamas and mottled socks
as if they
had any value
as though
they were what I should take home
not him.
Their
insistence that I relieve them
of his
things, props
I could no
longer use
to enact
our two-way drama.
What am I
to do, I ask you, with his pajamas;
with these
mountain socks, threadbare
where his
big toes curled?
The
Murmur of Mourning
grief has
no chronology
wielding
its edges
grief is a
stuck needle
scratching
at the same place ⸺
the last
time I saw you
a breathing
tube tight in your mouth
a heart
monitor echoing your heart
wild when I
tightened your hand in mine
your
half-read books inhaling dust
your phone
that never rings me ⸺
grief is a
liminal place flickering
surreal tense with Romantic feelings. Love every word!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dustin for your encouraging comment!
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