Tomás Q. Morín is the author of Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu, as well as co-edited with Mari L’Esperance Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. He teaches at Texas State University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Weather Sayings
Piece by piece breaks the black wall
cloud of police; they pound
like rain and say don’t call it pain.
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The cold fish and muddy clouds
of your face blacken then blue.
At work, your friends clown and tip
toe around in their rain boots.
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When hope doesn’t rise like bread,
drink the sunlight to stay fed.
