Rodney Gomez
Rodney Gomez is the author of Citizens of the Mausoleum and Ceremony of Sand. His collections Arsenal with Praise Song and Geographic Tongue, winner of the Pleiades Press’s Visual Poetry Series, are forthcoming. His work appears in Poetry, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, the Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, and other journals. He is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop and serves as the 2020–2021 Poet Laureate of McAllen, Texas.
Reading List
Self-Portrait as Desert
Is there a song for recovery that doesn’t also sting? That straightens the coat hanger called violence? You ask for water but I have none to pour you. I strike an altar with melted candles. Saint Martin de Porres wears a blast crater in his heart. All I know by this time is how bullets […]
The Animals
under the baleful eye of desert stratus I count the number of times I’ve eaten an animal my mouth also a captor I’m served by a man who escaped Guatemala wrapped in his mother’s body like all prey, he moves invisibly as I tear and grind lamb slathered in mint I forget he is there […]