Con Amor

Dario Beniquez

November 12, 2023

For Connie Wong

After the last conga dance

and the last mariachi song

ended, our faces tired

of too much happiness, 

our hands swollen 

with too much holding

our ribs crushed

with too much hugging, 

we sat up on the bed

reaping the joy

of too much loving,

something my mother

warned me about, something 

I always disobeyed.

Dario Beniquez is a poet. He grew up in Far Rockaway, NY. He lives in San Antonio, TX. He is an USAF Veteran. He holds a BEIE, Pratt Institute, NY, and an M.F.A, Pacific University, OR. He is the author of Zone of Silence, prose, and poetry collection.