Edythe Rodriguez

Edythe Rodriguez is a Brooklyn-based poet, copywriter, hardcore Bustelo drinker, and non-violent Beyhive member. She’s the author of We, the Spirits, which won the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest and she’s received fellowships from Hurston/Wright, The Watering Hole, and Brooklyn Poets. You can follow her work at her website.

Dissolve

These pearls were once teeth before the water’s

whittle and polish.

Refuge

they could take him any day now
they are taking one a day now