Thursday, October 3, 2019

Unspoken rule By Alex Z. Salinas


Eat this word
Drink this image
The poet answers to metaphor 
Desires only the clean page

And I soil it
Wherever she drops me 




Alex Z. Salinas lives in San Antonio, Texas. His first full-length book of poems, Warbles, will be released by Hekate Publishing in fall 2019. He serves as poetry editor of the San Antonio Review.
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