DISTANCIA
by Giovanni Ortega

About the author

Born in New Jersey on May 21 of the year 1985, I have lived in Puerto Rico since the age of thirteen. Influenced by punk rock and surrealist poets, I have been writing substance induced melancholy since the day I awoke from my first death.

Distance in color scheme butterflies

Swim inside him taking another,

Years pass, ants drowned in soap water.

I move a mile in inch space and clatter

Snoring sounds of non committal engagements.

I in trance ….

In stop watches

Lemon Drops

there are no toys under the water

just your toes.

The silence of children swimming

across my bedroom window

louder as they grow younger

and squirrels dance above my head

moving boxes of footsteps

I lay unwilling

to squander pollution

through my lens

and the mustache inside my throat

they dance in the piano

the keys bent like a broken mandolin

where they come in as I keep

my distance far away inside

nails that scratch my aria into broken crystal lemon drops