NaPoWriMo Wednesday, April 21st, 2010/ Picture © Sergio A. Ortiz, April 2010
To the Crying Venusians dedicated to Ashley Santiago and Steven L ópez Mercad both brutally murdered trans-gender people living in Puerto Rico My skin shrieks, a cave dweller notified of yet another death, filaments by which the eagerness of penguins annihilate memories of dwindling oceanic twilight. I did not want to leave a trail for redheaded dragons with fiery tongues to terrify empty lighthouses, meadows and the jingles of readers on my day of resurrection. Queen Lazarus unwraps my feet with the grace of a deer tutoring my hands in the art of dying. Daddy, daddy, daddy my knees are skin and bone. I wear a pink triangle and numbers tattooed around my ankles. © Sergio A. Ortiz, April 21, 2010