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As if it were tomorrow

you arrive and unpack
in the middle
of me.

In the kitchen, tea
labels you unglue, kid-wise,
unearthing  the organic
flavors of fair-trade gardens.

I offer what I have,
basil, ginger, pink pepper,
and fizzy water,
the yellow kettle—
a fountain.

Your clothes unrest the sofa,
thinned jackets, gentle shoes,
multiple shapes of ties,
your exhibited emptiness
the space I can hug,
dispatch denials.


Lucia Leao is a Brazilian-American translator and writer. She has a master’s degree in Brazilian literature from UERJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and a master’s degree in print journalism from University of Miami. Her poems in English have been published in the South Florida Poetry Journal and in Chariton Review.

Pigs in Space

Down the Road