The man under
the apricot tree
holds a balloon
filled with ocean
water. A house
is burning six blocks
ahead, the skyline
a parchment
stained with ocher.
I love you
this orange evening,
around the corner,
& in my hands.
Blackbird
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Aldo Amparán
Award in 2020 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Their second book, The House Has Teeth, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in September 2026. Amparán has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and CantoMundo. Their work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere.
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