Immaterial

Jacob R. Benavides

November 8, 2021

The body

This Body 

Of mine

A body

Of oily smears, painting

The expanse 

Of a body

Of puddles

Shallow

Sandbars

Strangled 

Rusty ripples

Torn open

Bursting with lemony froth

Spewing forth life

Along a bony belly

Coral collar bones

Tracing a translucent chest

Veins, Violet upended

Vibrance resplendent

Thrown down

Out around

This body

The body

Its once hollow sound

Of mine

A precious 

Queer

Body.

Jacob R. Benavides is a poet residing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is an undergraduate student pursuing English Literary Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi with minors in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Art. Jacob has been published previously in The Windward Review, a South Texas literary journal.