Against the backsplash today
instead of Oso, the bottle of
tequila: why
has he has taken a new
lover? In the picture, the agave
rosette pine cone grenades
sun-blanched Tiffany lamps
in beige and treacle
with lime between
the axe-wounded
inner ripples around another
core: the heart of the heart
a white cave
into which I have gone
to look for him.
* Oso = Oso Negro, a brand of Mexican vodka.
Rose Hunter has been published in literary journals including Word Riot, Juked, Storyglossia, and The Barcelona Review. Links to her work can be found at her blog, "Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home". She is also the editor of the poetry journal, YB. She is from Australia originally, lived in Canada for many years, and now lives in Mexico.