Poetry by Caroline Fernandez
With you, it’s a slow
lengthened release
the way syllables link
and vowels strip
the consonants down
to the bare meaning
between us.
When you are near, your husky
drawl lingers in the air
as we open each other up, our jar
of sweet nectar and musk
the humming language
that bonds us.
By day, we are wordless
shuttered by the piercing white sun
banished till dusk
I still hear you
resounding in the silence
In your absence, I make
sounds that remind me
of conversations our bodies have had.
By night
our lips part again
and find each other
delicate wings
seeking the same petal
to rest upon.
Caroline Fernandez is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her writing has appeared in Ghost City Review, Eat the Storms, Tipton Poetry Journal, and Torchlight. Her poetry has been shortlisted for a Writer’s Digest award and she was nominated for the Allegra Johnson Writing Prize. She was a Tupelo 30/30 Poet and an artist-in-residence at Buinho Creative Hub. Her reporting is featured in Time Out, Communicate, and Hype Magazine. She founded Kerosene Digital, an arts and culture news platform and content house. She has a degree in journalism from Concordia University and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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