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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