Poetry
The night a bullet for waking up
Inhale the moonlit air
Los Angeles asphalt and fein
Momentarily a city
She wears her hair in two buns
A pair of nines
The smoke a season
For waking up
Inhale the moonlit air
Cycling across South Whittier
A shopping cart
Cracking up the line of
Motel peddlers’ song syringe
The bus stop a reason
For waking up
She wore a pair of knives
Her throat and then the same
Poem his Olga sixteen
A fountain her child the river.
Bio: José Hernández Díaz
José Hernández Díaz is currently working on his MFA in poetry at Antioch University Los Angeles. He earned his BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley. His work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, The Progressive, Kuikatl, Poetry Flash, Bombay Gin (Naropa), Mérida Literary Magazine (MEX), El norte que viene (ESP), ditch poetry (CAN), 3:AM Magazine (UK), The Delinquent (UK), The Recusant (UK), Kerouac’s Dog (UK), Decanto (UK), International Times (UK), Blood Lotus, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Huizache (UHV), The Packinghouse Review, Foothill (CGU), Counterexample Poetics, Generations, The Legendary, Contratiempo, 1969: A Journal of Ethnic Studies (UCB), La Gente (UCLA), BlazeVOX12, Metazen, Emerge Literary Journal, among others. He has edited five novels for Floricanto Press. 2013.
La Llorona
