Holy Ghost
Study
C.T. Salazar
sunflower field
.
snake-headed boy
.
river-sunk truck
.
rain a music like
.
a horseshoe nail
.
& jeweled hammer
Heirloom Antler
C.T. Salazar
emptied thicket
.
fawn ran through
.
today the wounds
.
ringing & sunlit
.
cover us like dew
.
dazzling isn’t it
C. T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2022. He’s the author of three chapbooks, and the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award in poetry. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, 32 Poems, and elsewhere.