Small Vices

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SEWANEE REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI:10.1353/sew.2024.a934396

Eduardo Martínez-Leyva

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Small Vices
Eduardo Martínez-Leyva (bio)

Snow illuminated the park and you wanted to die. That winter

you slept with a saucer of water under your bed. Every night. Woke up to find nothing

but the off-white-stare of the empty cup. Spelled out your fantasies on my upturned

palms. They were dirty. Unsayable. Between us ran a long line of insomniacs

and addicts. Bad habits. Missing history we wanted to piece back together. Stitch it

like an heirloom displayed behind a glass vetrine. We looked for signs in cards and tea.

In the language our muscles made at night. The nearness of stars, in songs.

As the storm hit, reaching past our hips you read Russian novels to feel less morose. [End Page 404]

Said you loved the word 'morose' more than me. Locked yourself behind your grin-wrinkled face

which you believed looked like a foreign town pillaged years ago. Curtainless. Flags at half-staff.

When the lights finally went out, you tried your hardest covering all of this up with your hands.

My voice was the only thing keeping us warm. [End Page 405]

Eduardo Martínez-Leyva

Eduardo Martínez-Leyva was born in El Paso, Texas, to Mexican immigrants. His work has appeared in Poetry, the Boston Review, the Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Cowboy Park, won the 2024 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press.

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