POET OF THE WEEK
Fernando Pérez
Week of March 26
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337/365
337/365
Creosote Rains
Water from belly.
Forgotten faucet.
*
Black hair rivered over
the cliffs of her shoulders.
*
Resistance: the knotting
of a leaky hose.
*
Place a marble on her tongue,
a penny between her brows
to damn the river of blood
coming down her nose.
Creosote Rains
Water from belly.
Forgotten faucet.
*
Black hair rivered over
the cliffs of her shoulders.
*
Resistance: the knotting
of a leaky hose.
*
Place a marble on her tongue,
a penny between her brows
to damn the river of blood
coming down her nose.
Fernando Pérez 36, Seattle
FIRST POEM My father says I wrote it when I was 5. Our family dog, Biff, had run away. I went to my room and wrote, “Bif es gon.”
FAVORITE BOOK OF POETRY Always Danger by David Hernandez: “Damage makes a notch on us all.”
FAVORITE LOCAL WATER Lake Washington because I ride over it on my way into work and it reminds me to stay present.
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