CATACHRESIS

                     by Oscar Mancinas 

                                  for Pablo Medina

Silence like wind disturbed
& your warm darkness
inks across unimagined night.
Hay que actuar, hay que amar,
Your margins croon
Like Cuban coasts;
& what, I wonder,
Would be of me or us—   
On this sea—were we
Without your robust thirst
For mapping? Your desire
Rising within like waves
beating & unbeating our buried
pulses. Your exegesis urgent
yet tender and I wonder still—    
How do you lift an island
& a people past simple cosmos
To your lips to whisper
& kiss us all into eternity?





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Oscar Mancinas is the proud son of Mexican immigrants. He obtained an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and is now back in his native Mesa, Arizona pursuing a PhD at Arizona State University. His stuff can be found at Cosmonauts Avenue, Queen Mob's Tea House, Storm Cellar Quarterly, Best Small Fictions 2017, Hayden's Ferry Review, and latinxsbelike.com. ​