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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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SERGIO ORTIZ
Maquerade In school he was a sprinter. Today he's a short fuse marathon runner lugging all his belongings uphill in a shopping cart. God didn't know who he was. If you pointed him out He still wouldn't have known. But there is a chance he'll walk himself back home across the bridge to the house with a chimney resembling a monolith from where Vivaldi inches like fog across cobblestone in twilight. Sergio Ortiz grew up in Chicago, studied English literature at Inter-American University, and philosophy at World University. He was an ESL teacher most of his life, worked as a Daily Living Skills Instructor for the El Paso Lighthouse for the Blind. His work has been published or is forthcoming this year in: Salt River Review, Modern English Tanka, and Yellow Medicine, The Battered Suitcase, Shipwright, Loch Raven Review, Red Fez, Rust and Moth, Tongues Of The Ocean, Collective Fallout, Shamrock Haiku Journal, 3lights Gallery, The Smoking Poet, Word Catalyst, Clean Sheets, and over fifty other journals. |
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