by Clayre Benzadón
Unequal bittersweet cuts
from the incised moon.
It breaks open evening’s
strawberry top, sunray
Venus
whispering button
into a baby’s ear.
Farther away, Florida
cones float above
the corroded water,
horse conches wade
under a rusty dove
practicing skinny-
dip mating calls,
slight as kitten’s
paws
scratching at
paper fig surfaces,
the languish
becoming so full,
it colors the light
orb overhead calescent.
Clayre Benzadón is a third-year MFA student at the University of Miami and Broadsided Press’s Instagram editor. Her chapbook Liminal Zenith was published by SurVision Books. She was awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for ‘Linguistic Rewinding’, was published by The Acentos Review, Kissing Dynamite, Hobart, and has a translation forthcoming in The Blue Nib.