Isabela, Puerto Rico
where am I
ordinary explosión
de las sienes
hundred temples
red cerebral
flamboyanes
fuegotten
nunca
dissolvidar
ever fire
in caos
dos pills each morning
tres evening dose
for decades traga
have swallowed peor
con bitter orgullo pill
leve [tiracet] am I
mulch of skyline
where am I
where’s
wepa in
epi
lepsi
lexi
con
o ser
to know one
self a seagull
gab iota
never crashing
bodymind
buildings
melt canopy
fever sun
febrero’s chaos
aches sin hache
hacha de fuego
waking hours
convulsión que soy
seizure I am
walking waves
the express
way ordinary
I of familia
less song
canopy & cave
no cabe aquí
mi trino
mi gorjeo
try no more
to fight the twitch
you are not
tu receta
your prescribed
prescriptive self
receipt of pharmaceuticals
you depend on
para sobrevivir
para sobrevolar
planing over
neural sea
mar neural
gorge of light
coro (escuchando a Villano Antillano):
seagull squawk y guaraguaos
canopy of burning green
familia I’ve never seen
memory’s old wooden house
seizure teoría del caos
red walking ordinary
expressway February
aura’s song is where the sun is
fever dream of flamboyanes
knows no cure, no adversary
Copyright © 2024 by Urayoán Noel. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 24, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.