BIO
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague is a Miami <-> Philly gay, Latino Leo living in Philadelphia, PA. He is the author of the poetry books Jazzercise is a Language (The Operating System, 2018), about the exercise craze of the 1980s, and Oil and Candle (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2016), on ritual and racism. He is also the author of chapbooks on gay sex, Cher, the Legend of Zelda, and anxious bilingualism. His third book Losing Miami, on the potential sinking of Miami due to climate change and sea level rise, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms.
Beaches
along the beach another yellower beach on top
the mirror image
tourist soda fizz
I want what I want
sourness of algae
be my friend
this place is a gorgeous index
I’ll ask again
along the beach another yellower oxidized beach on top
crawling over it
diamonds along the sand
on the second beach no trace of a dog
or those little white birds that go in and out
people only thousands of them
I didn’t dream them up
flat absent state
distinct smell of the shape it takes under direct light
above ground above image
I have placed thousands of bottles into the gulf as
morse code for you my island neighbor
to say “everywhere bilingual must go”
a girl is wishing she was a fish
she will get her wish
a series of small triangles
chrome-color and alien
lift out of the ocean to take crumbs
from a beachgoer’s tote bag