Honorable Mention in April's IBPC Competition

Honorable Mention
Anger
by Sergio Ortiz
IBPC

worried
your name is missing—
it circles
in the shadow-world,
a wind-blown ghost

a salamander
crawls up my skin–
my tongue
tangles with aphasia,
ready to confront

his mouth
full of fumes -
I blaze up
like the ruff
of an offended bird

shadows
prisoners left
on the wall —
..........scattered
in a mass grave