outline of the green rain balcony

I posture alone           

tree bugs dance :: clouds pollinate

my tiny eyes home

::

suitcase :: dew drops of

rain :: memories dwell :: I shut down

under watermelon

::

seeds :: inflorescence

extinct but brain :: crabapples :: the fresh

smell of dolor retro–

::

cedes :: quirky controlled

scallion white garlands :: the sweetest

mango chases beetle

::

neck into empty

opaque bulb :: branch hibernates

see column of fauna

::

flora :: mossy

impulsive sky :: suffocates

the ground pecks its head

::

barefoot :: labios orchid

saturated windows sprout :: heart

hibiscus :: homogenous

::

life is a box of

leaves :: in overly wet soil roots

can't breathe

Hermelinda Hernandez is a Zapoteca from Oaxaca, Mexico. She’s an aspiring poeta, currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at CSU, Fresno. She is a graduate artist at Juan Felipe Herrera’s Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio and has received a fellowship from Community of Writers. Her poetry has appeared in Small Press Traffic, Acentos Review, Zone 3, Poets.org, Honey Literary, The Ana, Voicemail Poems, and elsewhere.