"Entwined with the Divine" by Lourdes Tutaine-Garcia

Entwined with the Divine

Deities, encumbered
The dog barks to be let out with times and spaces of multiple dimensions,
complex pluralities and singularities,
and other habits of breathing,
could not wrap their heads around
where he imbibes people splitting now like atoms into
the blueness of the night past and future while
trying to live simultaneously in both,
in hollow sniffs, searching for pockets of benevolence,
spots the timelines of
the universe in starlight,
raises his head to seek blessings infinite and open
in the wind before pissing into it. like a rose without circumference

It’s all one thing to him — especially in times of struggle
everything worth mattering when now contracts,
harder and more compact
than a cutting board
where agony necessitates
a survivalist’s denial, opening
spaces more surreal than
the tolerance of anticipated pain,
is already always happening. unanesthetized skin ripping
centimeter by centimeter,
at someone else’s pleasure.

Now is his ticket to it. Spirit snaps
from body,
spirals in dissipating swirls
The dog completes his tour to entwine with the divine,
with their distorted times and spaces,
of the universe, their mystical breaths
of water, ice, and steam,
to reach the edge, reach the edge,

barks to be let in. with goals of sighing in a chorus of relief,
and liberate itself from now.

Lourdes Tutaine-Garcia

Lourdes Tutaine-Garcia is Cuban by birth, American by citizenship, Cuban-New Englander by culture. Her poems have been published in several journals, including Adanna Literary Journal, Avocet, Metafore, Blanket Sea, SCUM, and Cathexis Northwest Press. She was selected as one of the best prose writers in mid-coast Maine by BestLit Review, 2018.

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