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Poetry & mixtape by Ingrid Calderon

Ode to Saturn
 
[external]
 
ringed flattened ball of hydrogen, helium and methane--
your 62 moons and 10 hours, 32 minutes and 35 seconds of day
explain my persistence to catch up with time;
 
you tilt your axis...
 
your rings,
 
disappear in 30 year returns--
 
empty shells, void of sunsets
head in hand,
head in heart,
heart in palm,
 
gone--
 
we sing to hide the stutter in our voices
 
life lives,
hostile and waterless
 
slimmed purpose,
we are carcasses
our own prey,
eating off the parts sullied by reserve
 
ice dust rocks arrive in the dead of night
acoustic and gaping,
float on water
our bodies
a furnace,
where sallow bones explode
replaced by discipline--
 
a moderate caution of foundation
 
I can still taste the tears
I shed long ago
 
a shore of scraped sleep--
we seek truth on bended knees
 
settled energies satisfy when criticized;
an agonized near-stall
 
I stand naked in gusts of your sighs
bound by weeding and extraction
 
we are seeds & gardens of liberation
our words wait—bravely
we grind addictions down,
salt on closed wounds
we warm our hearts
with an embrace that goes 1,118 miles an hour/
 
blowing away insecurities
 
[internal]
 
where my fruit grows, it is abundant
no tempest on my temples
just unruffled breath, hushed repose
no filth or melancholy—only sometimes
when the need to be cleansed is overwhelming...
 
sprinted paths crushed blooming flowers—watched them scream
examples of lifeless pursuits/
 
/numb/
 
—needed, were the seeds to sow;
blooming came when feet,
                                     bare and wise,
stepped over,
not on...those blooming flowers...
clawed and mawed, but intact
 
at least, the parts important--
and isn’t that, what matters most?
More more more by Ingrid Calderon here & here

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Ingrid Calderon is a far off island and the lines on the palm of your hand. She writes out of necessity to breathe. She wants to cry deep in your marrow, and push a blade in your navel. She’s you, and you’re her. Find her at @BrujaLamatepec.
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