Antonio Vargas-Nieto

stillness turned silence

we take turns

we split

the smoke

the road bumps

the aux cord

plucks

at heart

strings

leading to wings

pearlescent

full

lunacy

present

combustible

I make ruins

out of bursted

                        stars

                        ash

                        spit

chipped tooth dreams

at the grocery store

I pick the perfect heart

each wheel

rotates

in

harmony

daughter

sways

mother

secures

box

of

gogurt

head

spinning

I am earth

orbital habits

teleplasticity

another cigarette

another small death

my photonic twin

I’m tipping the scale

with moth wing dust

not defying gravity

but defiling it

I take off my shirt

its warmth

entropies back into you

communications

out of stray lines

crescent

windwish

eyelash

radio waves

as light forms

my instruments

tuned to your frequency

a terrestrial machine

sensitive enough

to detect black holes

merging am I

the machine

are you

the machine

my photonic twin

spread the wingspan

of a cosmic day

silicathread filigree

suspended in magnitude

no longer embodied

emboldened

cog dislodged from

orbital

carnal

bearing witness

to blazing branch

I don’t want to be near the fire

I want to be the one burning

Antonio Vargas-Nieto is a Mexican poet in between biographies. He is BASED in Milwaukee, WI.