baby / if you were to
shoot / and
I left behind me a
392-foot-long
trail of blood / a wedding
train / a slug’s
slick mucus / a tongue
still singing
tell me / ¿how much
would I have lost?
John Manuel Arias is a gay Costa Rican/ Uruguayan writer and poet from Washington DC, currently living in San José. He studied at Pace University. His work has appeared in Rogue Agent Journal, Rust + Moth and The James Franco Review, with new poetry from this collection appearing in the forthcoming issues the After Happy Hour Review, Tinderbox Journal, Polaris Magazine, After the Pause, Red Paint Hill and Crack the Spine.
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