an on-line poetry magazine
for the 21st century
Youssef Alaoui
BUILDINGS ALL
Buildings all
sideways and powdery
sour with blood
Swollen blister pockets
of air to scream in
martyred charnel
How to escape you
every fallen leaf a horse
running free
melting into the earth
Dread sundown, cracked city
rocket fire toasts the air
We each wait our turn
we lose every next day
we live
Youssef Alaoui has spent most of his professional life in library stacks researching antiquated knowledge or cutting edge sciences. For a few years, he was a contracted international investigator. His home cities are San Luis Obispo, Tempe, Paris, Seattle, and Oakland. www.bio.site/youssefalaoui