by Tim Stuemke
A Semi Sonnet for a Texas Snowstorm
It is the first Ash Wednesday on which
my excuse for not kneeling in a pew
is valid. My water comes and goes,
but mostly goes. I poem by candle
if I have to. My government doesn’t
give a fuck – every action discounts
our existence. What choices do I have?
Do I water my cat or make more pasta
during the rare moments I have power?
Or do I step outside, lose myself in the
snow-covered parking lot, walk to
the grocery store across the street and
keep walking, my fog of breath proof
I’m alive.
SG Huerta is a Chicana poet from Dallas. They are pursuing their MFA at Texas State University and live in Texas with their cat Lorca. SG is the author of the chapbook The Things We Bring with Us: Travel Poems (Headmistress Press, 2021). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in perhappened mag, Kissing Dynamite, Lavender Review, and various other places. Find them at sghuertawriting.com or on Twitter @sg_poetry.
Tim Stuemke is a collage artist living outside of Portland Oregon. He works almost exclusively with vintage and antique reference material. Not being held down by a single specific style, he allows the image to help guide the visual direction. It could be dada, surrealism, pure abstraction, or a personal form of symbolism.