The Chinese Orange

women grow ones
bright in Ivernness

pythons smell
the wet for deer

cops shiver in
the tropic wind

palms bald in
the tropic wind

sugared whipping
shards of roofs

whispered price
of Arab oil

I’ve thought as
hard as God allows

this is what
I tell myself

maybe squinting
through the churn

will He think
I’m someone else

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Zamora Lagos lives in Georgia.