Hey! I’m Liz. I love traveling between dimensions, resurrecting memories, and writing poetry about it. I do music here and there, and definitely want to do more. From public TV features to poetry trucks, blogs, and conferences, both academic and otherwise, I love saying yes to cool projects! (Including this one!). I am a multidisciplinary poet, a second-generation Guatemalan immigrant, proudly bilingual, and first-generation university graduate.
Idol
Sea star suspended in slime
Frozen corpse voyeuristically displayed to honor present dead & future dying oceans
Gaze—if it isn’t the consequences of our actions.
Halted decay, a reminder of our insatiable hunger for destruction.
Human nature as deep, dark, & horrifying as The Mariana Trench
Holding oceans of contradiction swimming in simultaneity.
Tender tendrils exercising their plurality.
Ashamed for defining my non-divine definition.
Yet proudly, I am human
alien
imperfect
Watch me weather all pain
Like a canyon in the desert
Eroded by time, abandoned by water millions of years ago
Whispers of ocean life kissed my land and left fossil beds
Teeming with shadows, embossed with shapely specimen
I have been changed by the passing of seconds like sand.
What I thought I knew to be true became the mirage in my blue horizon.
Near heatdeath, you would never guess that in 100 and some degrees that water from the Colorado river would be near freezing.
Float, like a coveted, holy cadaver
A petrified idol
Broken by the contradiction.
Rebuilt by the life, the water that traveled through time to create me
The same aquatic prison that traps me
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