after Ocean Vuong and why this want for permanence surround sound my life with backups sound out my name and it’s almost a library flower pressed screen dazed stillness a twinkie and her wrapper words she presses in the shape of a body I too will one day be glad I am no longer violet and instead fertilizer no mama’s memoir no mama to read my memoir will be ocean open ooooo like whale sounds I will linger forever in the aqua uh huh I used to be fern now I’m feather my body retreats for ever/y line I write I forget my hands can strangle recycle like madness like magic I immortalize the white I wrangle with pen body oh body earth will ground us whole ————————————– Fiona Martinez called us from San Diego, CA. voicemailpoems.org/submit/ facebook.com/voicemailpoems x.com/voicemailpoems bsky.app/profile/voicemailpoems.bsky.social instagram.com/voicemailpoems