LOYAL
Sara Lupita Olivares | Poetry
I used two hands I used none. looked through the trees,
imagined myself similar, incongruent. I wasn’t surprised
I had said. no, nobody thought of what unbinds itself.
radiant, I whispered to nothing and in it nothing beamed.
Sara Lupita Olivares is the author of Migratory Sound (The University of Arkansas Press), which was selected as winner of the CantoMundo Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Field Things. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, Fugue, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Currently she lives in the Midwest and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield and a poetry editor for Waxwing.