April 2026 Poetry Contest Winner
body
Gabriel Chavez
“he says writing something down keeps it alive” andrew mcmillan
“he says writing something downkeeps it alive”andrew mcmillan
i lay there young buck sanctified your beached body in the way wanting knows UV calcified skin teasing of it
as an almost summer ’26 as the 16 minutes left until the fingers you called pretty move to where blood flows this time of aftersun
heat as the breaking of waves inthechest
weakness as pleasure as the sightofyou as the edge of aftermath as breath suffocated by blush lips
love from your mouth as unpicked flowers as anything but upheaval as heaps of strong earth as intimacy in the way soft stomach to soft stomach
Gabriel Chavez writes under the moniker “.bleu” and is a self taught poet based out of San Francisco, California. He writes about a myriad of topics with an emphasis on exploring format, mostly revolving around grief, love and the fickle nature of the human experience.
