~ Delta Poetry Review ~

LC Gutierrez

Love Poem With Stars

Open our mouths real wide, there

might be galaxies between each silence.

Clusters between each word.

We’ll call them constellations

or at least make room for them.

While our heads feel big by weird trick

of the homegrown gravity here

the stars still will stay small

in the watery scope of eyes.

We want them watching us:

see how quickly we must puff,

then gone, we disappear.

We’re two tiny pools of something

praying for what’s above

to love us a little anyway.

If you wish to see the stars

then focus on what is

because there always is

even when there isn’t.

Does it matter if we know

the shine that just now greets us

belonged to a long-dead light?

In the end it all must burn

then come right back to cold.

If you would be the dust

I will be the ashes.

Let us go together.

LC Gutierrez is an erstwhile academic and product of many places in the South and the Caribbean. He currently lives, writes, teaches, and plays trombone in Madrid, Spain. His work is most recently published or forthcoming in NY Quarterly, Tampa Review, Slant, Trampoline, Boomer LitMag, wildscape, and other wonderful journals.