FOUR SNAKES MAKES OUR FLAG
1 the flickering lichen this dream again
Genesis, Exodus, Leyton, Daisy
the dew left a nightgown be a pearl
go on and try it on 2 and breath says
in and out 3 and [ ] says breathe
and the Firebird asmoke with morning
4 so sulfur coughs up a survivor
so silver in wonder 5 so engine begot
all the boys to their mothers so engine
was rumored 6 God and the clunker
where [ ] became one became in blue
grass overgrown and forgotten 7 dandelion
-headed and awake where there is always
an after 8 after this let’s spin some 9 gravel
C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. He's the author of Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre books 2022), and three previous chapbooks, most recently American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press 2021). His poems have most recently appeared in West Branch, Southeast Review, Gulf Coast, Cherry Tree, Pleiades, and The Hopkins Review.