Saturn

 when i touch myself

     while thinking of you

               i am mounted

onto the sun

               i am

                     taken

                             to

                          https://youtu.be/jZPnjTPxNDw*     

                    at two minutes and twenty-two seconds 

                                                                                    in

   you are

          saturn

        at opposition

                           and i am

                                        c

                                                  o

                                                        m

                                                            i

                                                               n

                                                                    g

                                                       coming

                                                                    coming

      to give

                     this fire 

to you

*Nao – Orbit / Saturn (Live at AIR Studios)

About Alisha Escobedo

Alisha Escobedo (she/her/hers) received her MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and her BA from Columbia College. Her work explores themes such as queer womanhood and addiction, among other things, and can be found in the Acentos Review, The Los Angeles Press, Desolate Country: We the Poets, United, Against Trump and Prompts!: A Spontaneous Anthology. She currently resides in San Antonio, TX, where she sporadically posts/deletes photos to/from her IG story @ayescobe.