Las Floridas
right now I’m
kinda messed stairs
. below moon
. up us swimming in ourselves shells O
me now open
.. all day
I hear here words & wind smooth
. sure
air full pure
let’s break alas
call for best of both sides jive
. . imagine the lives lied & living
lived
. did
. lied yeah know it well
. swallowed multifarious meanings blurred
. melt a ring dear stars April
. sun shone down on us all today
. baby
. sure shone down sure pure
you sd I ain’t no poet yo soy un libertine
About the Poet
Steven Alvarez is the author of the novels in verse The Pocho Codex (2011) and The Xicano Genome (2013), both published by Editorial Paroxismo. He has also authored two chapbooks, Six Poems from the Codex Mojaodicus (2014, winner of the Seven Kitchens Press Rane Arroyo Poetry Prize) and Un/documented, Kentucky (2016, winner of the Rusty Toque Chapbook Prize). His work has appeared in the Best Experimental Writing (BAX), Berkeley Poetry Review, The Drunken Boat, Fence, Huizache, and Waxwing.