Four Poems

FELICIA ZAMORA

Undulations:: Plate 29 After the Codex Yoalli Ehēcatl {From the Blue Vessel Emerges a Dark & Foamy Substance} From the substance, animated creatures. Winds. Winds who display characteristics of Quetzalcoatl. You think of what emerges from the vessel of you. Vessel inside a vessel. What nesting doll godliness inside you. Creatures who leak from your pores, your hair follicles, the webbing between your fingers. Miniature feathered serpents born in your cochlea, slip through your tympanic membrane, down your car canal to shimmy & climb up your helix. In chorus, the creatures sing back into the tunnel of you, Dawn is coming. Open. Dawn is coming. Open Open Open. {Intertwined Starry Wind Serpents Spitting Out Wind Figures} Using throat to guide. Trachea as passage as birth canal. To the next section of…

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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2024

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