Thursday, July 31, 2025: Luis Cuahtemoc Berriozabel's "Tiny Houses"

 


Born in Mexico, Luis, lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles. His poetry, poetry books, and poetry chapbooks have appeared in Blue Collar Review, Borderless Journal, Deadbeat Press, Fearless, Kendra Steiner Editions, New Polish Beat, Poet’s Democracy, Propaganda Press, Pygmy Forest Press, Ten Pages Press, and Unlikely Stories. His latest poetry book, Make the Water Laugh, was published by Rogue Wolf Press.


Tiny Houses 


In the sky the clouds are tiny houses 

with open windows and empty rooms. 

There is a chair waiting in every house 

worn-out by terrestrial travelers and 

there is but a handful of dust in each 

room. In the waiting chairs names are


carved to announce someone was 

there.  So many names, in so many 

languages were left. There is a 

kiss imprinted in one of the windows 

and dead flowers in a vase. It is 

the smell of death. The terrestrial 

travelers always leave in haste. 


In the sky the clouds are tiny houses 

that express their grief and joy 

with rain. There is little time for deep 

silence. There is a thirst for life 

which keeps the rain flowing 

and tiny house clouds moving and 

hitting against each other in the sky.

 

 © Luis Cuahtemoc Berriozabel

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