Moon As Salted Lemon

tonight I wedge
the moon
into bottom
of glass

con cada luna llena

watch it erupt
leak teal

cuando llega 
el atardecer

I can’t squeeze 
Julieta Venega’s 
“Limon Y Sal” out 

of my head
only Clase Azul
finger-

tip swirling 
salt around 
the rim

of a shotglass

Evening brings out
the bluest part

almost half 
of this lemonmilk

body is salted
by silicon 

dioxide glass 
created by meteoroids

hitting it

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Clayre Benzadón is an MFA student at the University of Miami, editor of Sinking City, and Broadsided Press’s Instagram editor. Her chapbook, Liminal Zenith was published by SurVision Books. She was awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for "Linguistic Rewilding." Additionally, her work has been featured in places including Pussy Magic, Kissing Dynamite, Hobart, and forthcoming in ANMLY, Fairy Tale Review, and Crêpe and Penn.