Hunger
Letisia Cruz
Paco de Lucia's guitar is the Monarch migration—
a butterfly in my mouth,
silent cross offerings.

We stand at the altar praying. You say
the opposite of loneliness is.
You say the rumors are.
And milkweed is nearly vanished.

We stand at the crosswalk waiting.
Cars soar by and the skies swell.
You say you smell rain and we
reach out our hands.
from the book MIGRATIONS & OTHER EXILES / Lost Horse Press
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“Hunger” is included in "Migrations and Other Exiles," winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2022 and published by Lost Horse Press in 2023. Dzvinia Orlowsky, Final Judge, Idaho Prize 2022, noted, “Precise and elegant, redemptive in its musicality and stunning imagery, 'Migrations and Other Exiles' is a remarkable, stand-out, collection.”
 
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