Sam Roxas-Chua
SEASIDE
Out here wild sunflowers drink from the small hands of salt. A little girl visits my hotel window and
points to leviathans on the beach spelling my name on the surf with their tongues. I pound on the
window where she falls five chapters down—disappears. I close the curtains. Out here mornings
move the kelp and my tea tastes like diamonds.
Sam Roxas-Chua is a poet and multi-disciplinary artist from Eugene, Oregon. His recent book, Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater is published by Lithic Press. His publications include Fawn Language (Tebot Bach), and Echolalia in Script -- A Collection of Asemic Writing (Orison Books). His poems and visual art portfolios have appeared in various journals including Narrative, december Magazine, Cream City Review, and basalt Magazine; and his collection of poems, Diary of Collected Summers, won the first place award in the 7th Annual Missouri Review Audio Competition in poetry. Roxas-Chua has received four Pushcart nominations and has been invited to read at local government events for the Oregon State Legislature.