Echo of ceaseless desire, seaward.
Non-apparent harmony:
multiple in iridescence,
single in the posthumous disbandment.

Insistent in its lure toward life
after life after life after life,
yet seduction of the senses.

I trust in that radical heat which hatched
all nature and mirrors it, rich—within. 

…

Israel A. Bonilla lives in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He is author of the micro-chapbook Landscapes (Ghost City Press, 2021) and the short story collection Sleep Decades (Malarkey Books, 2024). His work has appeared in Your Impossible Voice, Firmament, Able Muse, Minor Literature[s], new_ sinews, Berfrois, and elsewhere.