Miguel Hernández, Madrid, 1934
Corey Marks
Before his father turned back from the news to tend
the goats’ predictable appetites in the stony yard,
before the exiled breath hissed from Miguel’s teeth
in the last of his prisons, before even the first water
the goats’ predictable appetites in the stony yard,
before the exiled breath hissed from Miguel’s teeth
in the last of his prisons, before even the first water

