A Poem by Isaac Chavarria

searching

within vowels

desperate

clings of throwback

nights

drip on the wall

of my cheek

and speak

as they travel

down, creating

goose bumps

and hunger pangs

the sounds

climb over each other

toppling into

your partially

open lips

Isaac Chavarría is a graduate from the University of Texas Pan American with an MFA in creative writing and the co-founder of the Raving Press. His poems have been published in Acentos Review, Rio Grande Review online, and Gallery. Forthcoming publications to be included inBeat Texas Anthology and NewBorder: An Anthology. He currently works in the University Writing Center for UTPA and as an English lecturer for South Texas College.