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Island Chronicle


   


It isn’t the purple lips that kill
it’s the birds chirping outside
I’ll skip the bulldog regimen thank you
keep gum chewing forlorn
even neon clothes can dim a dressing room
nurses should offer scotch
crying near a chainlink fence is always good
I’m from around
sincerity is my favorite danger I say as I
change to a new sock on my bloodied toe
filmmakers use to know how to shoot in blue
love is teaming up for the sidequest
if shame lingers so does interest round the corner
need you to bring a detached realism be a witty
chimney
not this PS2 dialogue
I’m initially distancing
It makes the closeness more extreme
Adrienne Shelley on my trapper keeper
Casio doldrums
falling backwards
framed by two green lights and the future



Óscar Moisés Díaz is a poet-astrologer and film curator. Currently, they serve as a Contributing Editor for Asphalte Magazine and a Poetry in Translation Editor for Fence. They were a 2020-2021 Inaugural Curatorial Fellow at the Poetry Project as a member of Tierra Narrative. Recently they completed a writing residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts under the mentorship of Eileen Myles. Other recent poems can be found in Schlag Magazine, A Gathering of the Tribes, the tiny, and Scalawag Magazine.