BIO
Alexandre Bartolo is a Brazilian student who began writing after Leonard Cohen's passing. He has poems published in Tuck Magazine, Spillwords and Street Light Press, among others. He currently seeks to learn the process of language as well as if life is kind enough, to be read.
Rated to us
His prostate spams,
he says, astounded,
“Look, honey, without
hands”,
as if he wanted to
draw attention
toward a personal
milestone,
like when he first
pedalled
with no extra wheels,
just softness and
balance.
We are albatrosses,
faithful to one
another,
but we could be
swans,
plunging our faces
into clavicles,
as wells as flora,
lawn daisies
hidden amid orchids
and daffodils,
trying to match
pollen grains.
Whispers, passive
voices,
sweat, body hair: all
combined
indoors, where nobody
visits us, and Apollo
shines
through our curtains,
blessing
our union not before
courts or clerks,
but a heavenly
rainbow after the sunshower.