Sliced, diced, fried. Boo, I think about my thighs ; what it would be like
if you had thighs; how we’d cuddle, convincing ourselves we’ve been here
before. We mesh and mash so well together. You home. You castle. You market
where spices thicken the air: turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg — fold
into you like children out the rain. Every bite an invitation to taste the word
joy; savoring the process of bringing each other warmth.
Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx poet and teaching artist. Gabriel has received fellowships from Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Watering Hole, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, CantoMundo and a participant in the Callaloo Writers Workshops. You can find his work in publications like Winter Tangerine, The Volta, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, VINYL, as well as Bettering American Poetry Anthology (Bettering Books 2017) What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwestern University Press 2019) and is forthcoming in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Press 2020)
