Refraction
Anuel Rodriguez
our brown bodies / aren’t worth as much / as the white ones / so we build beacons / for our remains & use / the ashes to soak up / the blood on the asphalt / where the glass children sing / & dig around the earth / like bone collectors / their organs look like flowers / blooming inside of burning rainbows / some of their echoes / will soon be etched into the sidewalk / because light reacts differently / here where death hangs / around like antimatter / & the rippling sky feels like / an ocean above our heads / so we have to learn / how to drown before we can / learn how to swim
Anuel Rodriguez is a Mexican-American poet living in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry has appeared in Glass: Poets Resist and The Road Not Taken.