It’s Been Canyons Since My Last
Confession
Attend miracles propelling
in the slow uncontrol
happening to the revenant
My hands feel so dirty
My hands feel so dirty
Afternoons form out of a whistled clarion
that takes an elevator down from
a precipitation rester
Expanding sender
Stretch your house
Don’t asphyxiate yourself in comfort
The grass doesn’t grow in skies
until a head is met
with a weather accumulator
granting a zed tight cry entry
into a sun yard for the first time
Many waves brighten the suspect
of the world murder called affection
and it’s hairs they sort of scintillate
Threats coexist
nestled under that layered helmet
It’s great to take a bite of air
welcoming the stuttered door left open
Hear multiple violins cringe
melodies in stoic flowerpots
Would the myth in it’s chaos garb
be interested in the opinion’s atom
(doubt ripper)
Next to the moment stands a nap
I see that insomnia regularly
to ask it for forgiveness
“Forgive me, Sigh
Forgive me for summoning the wrong mouths
Forgive the uncouth grid appearance
Forgive my structures
Forgive me for being so talkative”
Information On However
Who else is lovely bones
here in a noise
Doing lovely
Curing and going well with cancer thinking
Upstairs is staying on top of my scenario
for it parties like it’s 300 AD
Yet so inspiring the rebutted roach
reaches for a soledad operating under
“pardon me” beliefs
destructive in time trial
instructing nine lives out of ten
to behead the house of representatives
one by one until an omega emits potency
enough to drug poor groups of bears
into salvation
into salvation
ten year vacation
fuck your vacation
take a cow disease for a weekend
take a plague for a day
change names
change your opinion house into an ostrich
carry the throngs of anxiety picnics
into a wedding waiting to be weeds
I am obviously not that lion you expected
Well think lightly and fly around an idea
Must be assigned a tower to denounce
by collision resulting in a flu inspired
a blue impaired to my astonishment
a plane composing itself
a darkness touching itself in public
a yet darker exposing itself in public
The Decisions We Make In Life
While Elevators Hesitate
Sometimes I receive a sudden meadow
but it doesn’t matter
because the real problem is my conversation crisis
I wake up feeling like a God fearing vortex
but look in the mirror only to see a famine
A confused piano’s murder
I am unsure of what to sound
In my library, there are hills
Many to neighbor and adopt
but I still haven’t yelled the correct voicemail
Snow falls on my desperate clock
and a cat knows the scare of scarred breeze
A gone fowl greeter
A gun in its gates
I fill my mouth with windows
and try to participate with every view
but lately I’ve developed a stutter
In my logical room there’s a skipping record
but in my whole house there’s a soluble leviathan
The installation grudge between
the open paper bag
and the ancient feline crooning
is a prolonged grapefruit of the senses
but that’s just how you travel in tumults
You pile one chaos onto another
until a platform leaves its bride
and sweeps itself from under a birthplace
to abandon its family for a birdhouse
to break in a rapid river
to drown in a door
to suffocate a sickness with its own eye
Stuttering, I’ve developed a happiness box
I never realized how much I care about staying alive
and keeping everything I love alive
forever, obviously
biography
LOUIS BARDALES is a Guatemalan American poet and musician. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois as a guitar teacher and deskie at the Old Town School of Folk Music. He attended Columbia College as an undergrad. He writes songs and poetry in both English and Spanish. His poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Otis Nebula, and Phantom. Contact him on Facebook or at via email.