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Poetry
I take my poem to a laboratory. It smells
like chrysanthemums.
A team of doctors wearing gas masks tells me
poetry is an equation with a solution. The last
line will not save lives. They place my poem in a
beaker. They should have planted it in a
porcelain pot.
Edward Hopper
I’m jealous of the sky,
Hopper says.
Breathe it in, I say.
Am I stoned or a canvas?
Did I still life myself into a pebble?
Am I not worthy of skipping
on a lake’s surface tension?
A shot of orange color
hits me with atomic force.
I am expansive lava, meteor.
Hammock
I have fallen
in the universe’s hammock.
I listen to the trees
walk and skip around me.
I am the White Rabbit
in search of a rolex.
I feel the kindness
of dice roll around my knees.
Alma Thomas
Painting is
howling
in a howl
of eternal howls
shaped
like an egg
of scrambled
howls.
I am lost in a blue forest
speckled with purple rain
and yellow sounds
of butter melting.
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Regie Cabico is the first Asian American Poet and openly Queer Poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and is a 3 Time National Poetry Slam Finalist. His work has appeared on TEDx Talk, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, NPR’s Snap Judgement. He is the recipient of a Writers In Residency from La Maison Baldwin and The Asian Pacific Studies Artist in Residence at NYU. Awards include a New York Innovative Theater Award for his work on the New York Neo-Futurists production of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind. His first full-length collection of poetry is A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex (Day Eight, 2023).
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