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10-2035

Liz Mariani

woke up to a photographed body

dopamine liked more dopamine

there was an underreported over-appreciation for unaccounted-for overdoses


humans are dead

humans are free

volcanoes salivate an air duct echolocation


a train arrives

to take you where you go

where you've been

where you've left


the new normal becomes newer

more normal


sea and air fill with fire-orange meringue

you remind me of los vientos


the sky cracks as in crust as in skin as in uterus as in blanket

held by arms but not restraint


your lover is dead

dead to the living

dead to the dead

suspended


there is no heat

winter has come for my lover

taken them to a frozen place


in order to live

i must stay warm

i must stay

i must stay alive



*Thumbnail image by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash

AUTHOR BIO

Liz Mariani's work has been published in Two Serious Ladies, Italian Trans Geographies edited by Danila Cannamela, Marzia Mauriello and Summer Minerva via SUNY Press, The Brooklyner Magazine, Fortunates, Artvoice, Images Magazine, PoemTown Randolph, BlazeVox, Hammered Out, Great Lakes Review, The Waiting Room, The Buffalo News, After The Pause, Advaitam Speaks and The Chaos Section Poetry Project. Liz has performed spoken word in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, Buffalo and greater Western New York, New York City, Vancouver and Bowen Island, British Columbia, Portland, Oregon and Oakland, California. Mariani earned an MFA in Poetry from Mills College in Oakland, California.

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