PIN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, a vast garden of literary comeliness, just published two of my poems

PIN QUARTERLY JOURNAL,

a vast garden of literary comeliness

just published two of my poems.  This journal is based in Nigeria. The poems are in the section: ACROSS THE OCEANS

WITCHING THE WORLD
By Sergio A. Ortiz

Real loneliness is like a window

from wherein you cannot hear a thing.

My loneliness is the tracks

at a train crossing, a damnation

of gunfire and impact. In silence

my name: the instant at which the gods

finally forget to call. I keep thinking,

sing to yourself and survive. Expand

to infinity like a deaf man expands

his voice in a dream.

ABYSSES

By Sergio A. Ortiz

I live between two abysses

The staggering patience

of him who walks far too long

to lean on the rail of a footbridge

―my only afternoon ceremony―

to watch the water roll by

And the enormous impatience

of him who wants to reach

the end zone at all costs

but only sees the size

of his insomnia

and jumps off the bridge

into your bosom