Being

by Fernando Trujillo

 

Thought is of the flesh

O beautiful villain,

Absence is a bellows

With a soundless song:

I zest in the Sun

Bare-chested and Full

I nocturne in the Moon

Settled and Empty,

How sweet this fever

This passing blur—

Fernando Trujillo (he/him) is another law school dropout scribbling poems between shifts. Susurrus is the first publication where Fernie's poems have been featured. They can be found retweeting poems on Twitter @OMountainShadow.