Kearny

I chase you from verse to verse
you were your own counter-melody
and when your smoke hit my skin
I melted right there and then
you were sighing in gradients
of sienna ochre and umber
your triplets incinerate me

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christian Garduno is the recipient of the 2019 national Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry and a Finalist in the 2020-2021 Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Writing Contest. He lives and writes along the South Texas coast with his wonderful wife Nahemie and young son Dylan.