You want the artifact
without having to go
through the window
to get it
a body untouchable
the
bluish
fire in your skin
casting its antibodies
on the floor
eleven different ways
to wrestle with the dark
inside you
none of it holding
things
together
we all fall apart
that way.
James Diaz is the founding editor of the literary arts & music journal Anti-Heroin Chic. His work has appeared most recently in HIV Here & Now, Foliate Oak, Chronogram, and Cheap Pop Lit. His first book of poems, This Someone I Call Stranger, is forthcoming from Indolent Books (2017.)
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