Ariel Francisco
ISBN: 978-1-949099-15-7
37 pages
Glass Poetry Press
Precision · Vision · Inclusion
Every Morning Now I Wake Up With a Mouth Full of Blood
Sample poem from Every Morning Now I Wake Up With a Mouth Full of Blood:
At the Chinese Gardens Without You
I have the bonsai tortured into their beautiful
smallness, small lives, smaller deaths.
These gardens were made for poets to come
and concentrate and write in peace.
The sky is as open as a fool, and the zen air
is amplified by the obscenities
of a homeless man reaching over
the high concrete walls. In the pond's
thin algaed waters, the smallest koi
is dead, glinting in the sun like trash.
Cover by Ariel Francisco
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Ariel Francisco is the author of Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2021), A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017) which was named one of the 8 Best Latino Books of 2017 by Rigoberto Gonzalez, and Before Snowfall, After Rain (Glass Poetry Press, 2016). Born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents, he was raised in Miami and completed his MFA in Poetry at Florida International University and an MFA in Literary Translation at Queens College CUNY. He was named one of the Five Florida Writers to Watch in 2019 by The Miami New Times and one of the 6 Guatemalan Authors You Should Know in 2021 by the Latino Book Review. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Yorker Podcast, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, The New York City Ballet, Performance Today, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His first translation collection, Carolina Sanchez's Viaje/Voyage (Editorial Ultramarina, 2020) was just published in Spain. He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Louisiana State University.
