Ana Fores Tamayo
Checkmate
The dancing queen is yet important
to the king’s deflowered innocence:
he plays the chess game
a little bored with laughter,
renouncing celibate eyes of onyx blue.
And as she sings his tears
lost in the flood of little rabbits,
the queen moves backward,
circles checkmate on her
narcissistic lover,
and pounces her loss,
victorious virtue tamed.
And so he squalls
the mountain of his maimed oblivion,
enchantment and castration lost
in scissors strangling fish.
Ana Fores Tamayo’s poems and/or photographs appear in Acentos Review, The Raving Press, Rigorous, and Frontera. She advocate for marginalized refugee families from Mexico and Central America.
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