Angela Peñaredondo
Girl Meets Girl
Eternity opens with the dark back
of a jazz pianist hunched inside himself.
Girl, with your chipped tooth, distressed shoes,
dark hair that remind me of Florence,
I speak cotton-soft to a broken heart, now
a vegetable for the dead. So I make
my move, espionage behind champagne
flutes and clink of cocktail glasses.
In bathrooms, I know couples moan, finger
each other, déjà vu trapped within tiled
walls. Girl, telepathy’s a dirty habit.
After all, night is the come-what-may
we all want to be. Nighttime is kissing,
shagging to dirty movies that flicker
like starlight. Night means obscenities
under a freeway. Without complaint, night
is our last far-out trip. Companionless,
her hands press upon the black hole
juke box.
Angela Peñaredondo is a writer and artist from Los Angeles, California. Currently, she attends the University of Riverside’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sin Fronteras, Solo Novo, Ghost Town, Temenos, Burningword, the Poet’s Billow, 20x20 Magazine and elsewhere. Angela is a recipient of a University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, Gluck Fellowship and a UCLA Community Access Scholarship in poetry
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Eternity opens with the dark back
of a jazz pianist hunched inside himself.
Girl, with your chipped tooth, distressed shoes,
dark hair that remind me of Florence,
I speak cotton-soft to a broken heart, now
a vegetable for the dead. So I make
my move, espionage behind champagne
flutes and clink of cocktail glasses.
In bathrooms, I know couples moan, finger
each other, déjà vu trapped within tiled
walls. Girl, telepathy’s a dirty habit.
After all, night is the come-what-may
we all want to be. Nighttime is kissing,
shagging to dirty movies that flicker
like starlight. Night means obscenities
under a freeway. Without complaint, night
is our last far-out trip. Companionless,
her hands press upon the black hole
juke box.
Angela Peñaredondo is a writer and artist from Los Angeles, California. Currently, she attends the University of Riverside’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sin Fronteras, Solo Novo, Ghost Town, Temenos, Burningword, the Poet’s Billow, 20x20 Magazine and elsewhere. Angela is a recipient of a University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, Gluck Fellowship and a UCLA Community Access Scholarship in poetry
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