death of the fine-feathered-




we the fine-feathered-

dinosaurs who comet has come

straight down to blast 

in the very long jugular

as though cosmic consciously thought  

are heaping

the sky turns uterine 

the rain a kind of breeding 

with clear ends in sight 




terracotta waters so broad 

the breath is gone

vertebrae petrified 

because i am dead i cannot say

because i am dead i turn my head 

and see brother floating beside 

hands a strand of black hair 

a benevolence

jaw & hips broke open


 

India Lena González is a poet, editor, and artist. She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University (BA) and received her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing program. While at NYU she served as a writing instructor for undergraduates and received a Writers in the Public Schools fellowship enabling her to teach literature to middle school students via Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Her work is published in American Chordata, The Brooklyn Review, Lampblack, PANK, Pigeon Pages, and Poets & Writers Magazine, among others. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, India is also a professionally trained dancer, choreographer, and actor. fox woman get out! is her debut poetry collection. She lives in Harlem.