SIX ECCLESIASTICAL LOVE SONGS by C. T. Salazar

by C. T. Salazar / Friday, 13 November 2020 / Published in Issue 19, Uncategorized

heaven is a compound
word
the sun sunders
us dazzling
so you don’t have to
wonder what wound
I’m showing

:::

heaven-heavy

like
a cello’s hello—

/ heaven-heavy

like an animal fond of its own

fur.

:::

A cello’s hollow
that’s what it felt like

breathing with you
in the dark

:::

heaven is a compound

but not the one we’re in

we were called heathens in another myth
hello whatever wound we answer to now

:::

the language of electricity was
the language of prophets

a conduit for the power to pass through
I’m all steeple at your lightning

let us tremble cellos
at your touch

:::

the river knowing which way to go

without any godspeed to spill

heaven: clouds marigolding softly

:::

birds drones butterflies a jug

of water anything

could get over that fence

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About C. T. Salazar

C. T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut full-length collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, is forthcoming in 2022 from Acre Books. He’s the author of three chapbooks, most recently American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press 2021). He’s 2020 the recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in poetry. His poems have recently appeared in The Rumpus, Beloit Poetry Journal, and the Cincinnati Review. Photo credit: Rachel Guerry