asking for your outline

the shower drips on me / i look
for an affirmation that you are leaving
silver raindrops / my wet belly shaped
a deflated half moon

something is fundamentally missing
my body / his hands

i …

i speak two ocean languages
one drowning in my mother
one lapping at my father

old ladies of roncesvalles wrapped in

mink difference regard me with disdain

i offer them my passport as consolation

pointing to my last name as …