Sunday, July 17, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
I Have Continued
Regardless
Each day demands
we create
the world over.
I leave the apartment
walk over to the elevator,
it arrives, I get in, join
one person with old eyes
and the smell of piss.
I hate it.
I get off at the lobby
look for entrance and walk out
the building towards
the coffee shop.
Old imperfections
cross my mind.
The dirty dishes in the sink,
the empty refrigerator, the pills
I did not forget to take.
As I walk away from the apartment
I look back, flames are rising
from the windows
of the 14th floor.
I decide to have breakfast.
It is now about 98 degrees
on a hot Monday morning
in July exactly
three years
from yesterday.
Friday, July 01, 2011
Temor
Es el temor de enfrentarme a mi mismo.
Es la palabra que escucho y me describe.
Es el relámpago de una mente ruin,
el día de la danza del fuego comenzó.
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Poetry Journals & Published Poems
- The Citron Review
- Breadcrumb Scabs
- flashquake
- Salt River Review/ Volume 12, No, 3, Winter 2009
- Ganymede Poets, One Anthology
- Flor del Concreto/ So It Goes Poetry Anthology
- About.com:Poetry
- Rust and Moth
- The Externalist: A Journal of Perspectives
- The Stoning of Sarah
- Illegal
- Letralia Tierra de Letras
- children churches & daddies
- The long and detailed principal of governance
- At the Tail End of Dusk Inn
- At the Church of 80% Sincerity
- The Chilean Temple Initiative-The Silent Beauty of a Mother Bee
- Ink Sweat & Tears
- Intimate
- Poet's Ink Review
- The Texture of Stone
- Bread & Tablecloths
- Weathervane, Royal Doll, In Memory
- Rain Dancer, Illegal
- The Beauty of Tattoos, He and I
- Runways
- Coming Together, Alessia Brio Editor
- Origami Condom
- The Battered Suitcase
About Me
- Sergio A. Ortiz
- San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
- Ortiz grew up between San Juan and Chicago, studied English literature at Inter-American University in San German, Puerto Rico, and philosophy at World University. He was an ESL teacher most of his life but also worked with the elderly blind population as a Daily Living Skills Instructor at the El Paso Lighthouse for the Blind, and the Texas Lions Camp. He studied culinary art at The Restaurant School in Philadelphia and became a chef. His work has been published in over 255 print journals, e-zines, and anthologies. Flutter Press released his debut chapbook, At the Tail End of Dusk, in October of 2009. Ronin Press released his second chapbook: topography of a desire in May of 2010. His photographs have been published or are forthcoming in: W5RAn.com, The Neglected Ratio, The Monongahela Review, and more. His poems were recently published, or are forthcoming in: The Battered Suitcase, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), WTF PWM, The 13th Warrior Review, Dark Lady Poetry, and Writers’ Bloc.
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