Poetry by Tara Isabel Zambrano

            ​Paulo César León Palacios CC



Wings
 
Those days back in my dorm, 
post meeting you,
I paced in the corridors,
like a horse cooling off after a race
now your lips far from my ears
I hear Om across the room. 
Vedas and vows to crush desire.
Untouched–
this dark between my legs, 
hot, frothing. 
 
Outside my window,
the rose light of dawn rides
a body of fog.
Cardinals peck at the grass, then
launch, maybe these birds
know something I used to know−
how they whip the indestructible air,
how the sky lifts them wet
and luscious in its mouth. 
And they feed.

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Tara Isabel Zambrano is the author of Death, Desire And Other Destinations, a full-length flash collection by OKAY Donkey Press. Her poems have been published in Hayden's Ferry Review, Rogue Agent, Moon City Review and other literary venues. She lives in Texas and is the Fiction Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal.

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