André K. Enriquez, 2018 PSP participant
Poet and editor André K. Enriquez earned his BA from Loyola Marymount University where he is currently pursuing his MA. Heavily influenced by the fantasy genre and lyrical surrealism, his poems explore the adaptability of ambiguous contexts, often drawing on themes of loss, peculiar circumstance, and queer identity.
This poem, influenced by Paul Celan, was written during the Prague Summer Program.
The Guest
The dark heads
Of the aspen curtain
Let rest their aegis
For the changing of the guard.
Night assumes her post,
And between the formalities,
He slips in–
His hand,
His leg, and then
His heed–
Sidles into my car as if
To a tin of hot milk.
Back to the wall,
On my hay,
He moves in his sleep,
And from above,
From the unseen,
I resolve to leave and return
With a welcome breakfast
A half-year coming.
But oh–
It’s Monday,
And the train has left.