Josh Rodriguez

if you find it,
don’t pick it up
and don’t move it
don’t even try
...

i’m sorry that
i haven’t been
around in a while,
...

it’s less
of a
threat
...

summers follow summers

and it’s easy to
get lost trying to
...

give me sparks
of life to get
this fire going
...

you exist casually
within the confines
of your 9-5,
...

you live every
second

no matter
...

is the wind
still gentle
across your
sallowed
...

some things are meant
to be unattainable,
out of reach,
ethereal;
...

we had smoke
in a bottle,

and
...

it’s that bad
cup of coffee
to start your
day;
...

you could walk into
a liquor store
and find some
kind of magic
...

it’s vivid,

a family
kneeling around
...

i don’t have it
in me to
choose
between
...

you can
let the liquor
spill on the
hardwood,
...

sometimes,

in the late
afternoon,
...

i stayed up all night
drinking and
watching nature
documentaries
...

i’ve been staying up
and getting drunk
at night,
smoking cigarettes
...

i haven’t been inspired
to write much lately,

and most of what
...

i lost god to
a woman
with soft
and driving
...