Untitled (L.A.)

after “Untitled” (L.A.), 1991, Felix Gonzales-Torres

sweetheart: mosaic:

crinkling starlight:
I am trying to unravel

your skin—how
it keeps growing

mouths—which bite—
wide—/ & open

again: their lesion-dark tongues:—
I am trying

to retrieve you—
water: adding

silver-white ice:
to the melt: whatever

sun can’t take:
unbound

ocean—
ideal weight 50 lbs.

all you can
ask for sometimes—/

I don’t want to
talk about this: I want

to say your lips
taste like granny smiths:

bite out of—: & open—:
wish to feel you

wrinkle, under
my hands: I am

trying to unwrap
you—/ only

to keep
you—

together—:
if I turn

you green, would you—
stay? would you?: stay:

: stay: stay:
: stay: stay:

stay? would you?: stay:
you green, would you—

if I turn
together—:

you—
to keep

you—/ only
trying to unwrap

my hands: I am
wrinkle, under

wish to feel you
bite out of—: & open—:

taste like granny smiths:
to say your lips

talk about this: I want
I don’t want to

ask for sometimes—/
all you can

ideal weight 50 lbs.
ocean—

unbound
sun can’t take:

to the melt: whatever
silver-white ice:

water: adding
to retrieve you—

I am trying
again: their lesion-dark tongues:—

wide—/ & open
mouths—which bite—

it keeps growing
your skin—how

I am trying to unravel
crinkling starlight:

sweetheart: mosaic:

Dennison Ty Schultz is a poet, barista, and MFA student at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, where they serve as Poetry and Art Editor for Number One Magazine. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Impossible Archetype, Foglifter, Peach Mag, New Delta Review, Fugue, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. They tweet @clubdenni.