I cough out
Earthworms as I
Claw my way
Up to you
Son. I hear
You stomp, pack
Down the dirt
Up there as
Hard as you
Can as if
Jigging on my
Grave.
Alexander Perez (he/him/his), a self-identified gay poet, lives in Albany, New York. There, he works at the University at Albany, where he obtained a master’s degree in philosophy. Alexander has poetry published in Trolley, journal of the New York State Writers Institute. He is a member of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild. Mr. Perez can be contacted at perezpoet.press or @perezpoet on Instagram. Alexander dedicates his life, love, poetry to James Adriance.