Soothed

I read my last few pages against the pinkling of the clouds:

             pink to gray is so alarming: (enter all the sounds) a

                         cyclist’s one-eyed light shines a feature

                in my brow: sky-tip birds are lathered

                by the thundering of the ground,

                Oh rush hour,

                Oh rush hour,

                steak-and-potato hills,

                coming home to me:

                a final swan,

                a shower fills.

Victor Hugo Mendevil is a Native American, disabled poet based in Boston. Originally from Seattle, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hofstra University and is pursuing a PhD in English at Northeastern University. His poetry has been published in Pangyrus LitMag, Harbor Review, and America’s Best Emerging Poets.