Desmond’s prose and poetry has appeared in the Tishman Review, HeartWood, Theme of Absence, and Whatever our Souls. He holds an MLA from Houston Baptist University, where he founded the student literary magazine Writ in Water, and he’s currently the editor-in-chief of Rune Bear, a magazine devoted to the strange and speculative. Desmond White lives in Sugar Land, Texas, with his wife and her two cats and the two thousand strays she feeds by the car.
Cuidado
A dónde vamos? she says
as he walks to her.
But he is not a train coming to station.
There’s something weird
in his eyes
and his feet are aimed
to take him past her.
He is a train in passing.
This station—quarantined.
Yellow ribbons of Cuidado, Cuidado, Cuidado
wrap her breasts;
abandonada stamps her head.
A dónde vas?
she says
before a black bottle
which reads: Tratar con cuidado,
which reads: No poner en los ojos,
and in sober black:
Sulfuric Acid
(ácido sulfúrico)
before this bottle appears in his hand,
or maybe it was always there.