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Alicia Mathias
SEASHELL IN A CORNER OF A SHOEBOX IN GRANADA
For Federico Garcia Lorca
Does it long for Lorca's touch?
Scented with ink—
petals from his wrists.
A field of castanets rattle.
Poems roll upon his fingertips—
ready to tidal wave the page.
Seashell murmurs
as Lorca writes an ocean
cupped in his pen.
Concerto of waves
lead him to follow
their fish silver map.
Where caverns of words
and flamenco moons await
his voice held up to their ears.
Alicia Mathias is a writer, photographer, and singer. Her poems have appeared in Unlikely Stories, The Bitter Oleander, and The Canopy Review. She lives and writes in New York, with her favorite muse, Zeppelin the Wonder Cat.
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