Two Poems
Henry Mariachi

Love Poem #17

The gods
pass
a halo
about
as if a
game of
basketball.

I fell
asleep
and they
changed
the rules.

As the
game
neared
complete
they
settled on
a darkness
in the
middle
of a pond.

From
which
we still
drink.


Love Poem

I am asleep like a tattoo.
A kiln that cannot kiss the clay.