Poetry by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

                           Ron Gilbert CC



​diode

heavy is the 
unseen wine bottle 
when the earth is burning
burning and dying
lead are my arms and legs 
now tell me how 
i can fly with the wings
you say i have 
there are an infinite 
number of sides to me
and all are confusing 
in my gut 
i know there are
luminous constellations
and if i raise
my heels high enough 
i can weave
their fingers with mine 





anti-eulogy 

you weren’t 
supposed to 
feed me
amaretto liquor 
until i 
blacked out 
when i 
was underage 
and if 
you didn’t
know that 
before this
i’m telling 
you now 





freedom 

your income 
your marital status 
your level of education 

doesn’t matter 

in the church
of this meeting 
you are an addict

like all of us 

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Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is a Pushcart Prize and Dwarf Stars Award nominee who also works as a professional visual artist. Her poetry has been featured in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, NHK World Haiku Masters, The Mainichi, and nearly 100 other publications. Her chapbooks include: says the rose (Yavanika Press 2019), filth (Proletaria 2020), and tyranny of the familiar (Yavanika Press 2020). You can find her on Instagram and Twitter via @tiffanyshawdiaz or through her website: www.tiffanyshawdiaz.com.

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