
About the Feature
Por Siempre
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I want you to see me, fresh
where the sun
shivers quick, I want you to relay the sharp secrets you refuse to tell me and I want you to speak songs to my stomach.
I wanted you, terribly, and the bed revolts and aches from a ghost that has never slept in my spaces.
I miss you terribly, though, images of you are relegated to square-shaped screens, filmic pieces, and little flicks of wanting, oh bello, I want to know what fulls in your vast and capacious mind.
I’m sorry, I don’t sin right. I don’t know how to push down the desire that blooms and fears and waits, but baby I can’t wait in line for you if it’s a long one, though in dreams, I would.
Because that’s how I feel. It’s too big and too wicked and too heavy and too engulfing and too flattening and too repetitive and please please please please
don’t ignore me, gently.
I’m terrified I’ll walk through your door and see you on the other end,
grinning with dark beard and I’ll want you por siempre and I’m afraid I’ll be stuck with your
enormous, glorious thorn and maybe the problem is that has already happened.
About the Author
Jennifer Maritza McCauley is the author of Scar On/Scar Off, When Trying to Return Home, Kinds of Grace, Neon Steel, Recognition (forthcoming, 2027), and the poetry collections Versus (forthcoming, 2027) and Tumbao (forthcoming, 2029). She is an assistant professor of English at UMKC in Kansas City.