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Atitlan
Splendor is sired
by brimstone—the lake
limes into glasses fired
with the memory of crimson.
Matt Pasca’s work has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in over 25 journals and 10 anthologies. His two full-length poetry collections are A Thousand Doors (2011, JB Stillwater) and Raven Wire (2016, Shanti Arts), . Pasca has been a featured poet/performer at SOMOS in Taos, NM, Shakespeare & Co. in Missoula, MT, off-site at AWP in Minneapolis, MN, The Orchard House School in Richmond, VA, the Parkside Lounge, Cornelia Street Cafe and Makor in NYC, and Hofstra University, CW Post, Stony Brook University, Molloy College, Nassau Community College and The Walt Whitman Birthplace on Long Island.
a blue heart
of primal fracture.
Signs welcome tourists, guides, little Mayan girls
selling their parents’ fish by the dock. Rising bones
dressed in coffee and corn and proud poverty test our faith—if
there are no more eruptions we’ll dine, dig, grind,
dye and fall in love
another day, stay in paradise,
eat from banana trees, climb volcanoes and squeeze
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