ALOUD ALLOWED
reading allowed
aloud
Kerouac-
Hafiz-
and in the in-between
Lorca-
in the night tales before bedtime
sweet dreams love
to the tango beat
swinging in stuttering circles
with those echoes pianissimo
in the moment movement
push from the diaphragm
in pleasure
pain
an echo from dreams
the sweet circle of love
a deep inhale
that can never be held
as herald to night
the diaphragm exhale
the stutter of movement moment
reading aloud
allowed
these in-between
Wwhish-pers
that sound
of night tales
a pleasure
a pain
love
A. MENDOZA, March 2018
