"Born for Thorax” by Crisosto Apache

tonight, beneath a cluster 

of stars they are born, emerging 

from their tightly woven pouch

under a dim light 

of a thousand wicker 

specks they march, 

up to the highest point 

and jump off single file, 

a microscopic battalion 

of eight legged paratroopers

descending gallantly

disseminating from a red chili 

peppered palace, they dangle and sway, 

away from their thin strands of a woven curtain, 

they scaffold to the roof top,

attached to an impressing umbilical cord, 

unaware of their shimmer 

in the moon lit peril

when the last cord is pulled, 

they scamper into valleys and crevasse,

like tiny silhouettes scattering 

a broken hack of black beads

emerging from their exquisite cocoon, 

they continue the dance and dangle 

on a trapeze flight, flittering 

without doubt till early morning, 

when dews consume the skeletal structure 

—and wean

About Crisosto Apache
(x) Gender Nonconforming

Crisosto Apache is originally from Mescalero, New Mexico (US), on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, currently lives in the Denver metro area in Colorado. Cris is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the 'Áshįįhí (Salt Clan) born for the Kinyaa'áanii (Towering House Clan) and is Assistant Professor of English at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Cris holds an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cris is also the Associate Poetry Editor for The Offing Magazine. Crisosto’s debut collection GENESIS (Lost Alphabet) stems from the vestiges of memory and cultural identity of a self-emergence as language, body, and cosmology.

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