Connection by: Anahi Umanzor, Digital Painting, 2019
Dynamics
You can be so enticingly enigmatic
From one angle
hugs, cherry lozenges, Vick’s, blankets
From another
scarlet, shattered vessels, spoiled milk
Mothers make soup
You ran over Lou
She absorbs the suffocation
And you, give me your own
She tells me to cover my feet
While you tell me to leave
She embodies warmth
You are the absolute absence of it
The empty rage perceived in the room
It’s seeping out of your pores
Attacking from the corner
I don’t see
Cough syrup was
Now allergy pills are
And her love was
Now your damage is
Why
Calling you a man
Would be so pathetically
invalid