Emiliano Gomez
epanilepsispanglish
largo
what becomes the journey of one
word as it becomes another word
subiendo thru mind sublimating?
pensamientos minding pensiveness
do not rush for what is to be done
but wait to bite like snarling dogs
prextextos implicitly because
preguntar elicits a pregunta
because insulation es a cave?
i land on an isle out yonder
i go toil rich soil till rico
aprendí riquezaz not rápido
amo my felled malemoters who are
falsificadores in fellowhip’s falls
as to not be staid from being eternal sea?
ollas de frijoles recen-hechos de oh-yeahs
waddathinkathemapples but that jokes heal
codas for foodforthought para planted aloe
pan does not cognate into bread
does not slice loaf does ¿does
frontera pushing pushing not come to mean frontier?
luchar four leaps from apuchar
fights shuffle n form fusion paella
tons and tons and tons of it tan tan
love
Love is not the emotion in the stead of hate
Love is the emotion par excellence
Love is emotion
Love is as powerful as power
and so much more powerful Love does not back down
Love me is the phrase of longing Love does not plead out
Love Caress Affect
Love the Kiss the Fact
Love is Is is Faces
Love came to me in a Dream last night dressed lovely
Love said to me Plain and Beautiful sounds surpassing meaning
Love made me Promise this Poem made me promise Permanence
Love can be short as sonnets
Love can be long as haikus
Love
loves
bell hooks
has shone me so
Amor
Amor no es la emoción contra el odio
Amor es la emoción más mejor
Amor es emoción
Amor tiene más poder que el poder
y mucho más que eso Amor no se hecha atrás
Ámame es la frase del deseo Amor no implora sí suplica
Amar Afectar Acariciar
Amar el Beso el Hecho
Amor es Ser con Seres
Amor me llegó en un Sueño la otra noche vestida bonita
Amor habló en sonidos Bonitos y Planos
Amor me hizo Prometer este Poema me hizo prometer el Permanecer
Amor puede ser lo más corto
lo más largo Amor
Ama
La Señora Sabia
me lo ha mostrada
Bio
Emiliano Gomez completed his undergraduate Honors Thesis with Brian Kim Stefans at UCLA which he attended on a Stamps Scholarship and a Gates Millennium Scholarship. He won the Olfet Agrama Prize, was selected to perform an ekphrastic of “Howl” for the Allen Ruppersberg exhibit at the Hammer Museum, and was a finalist for the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize. He attended the Ike’s Canyon Writing Retreat with Robin McLean, twice. His poetry has been published in Barzakh and by Indolent Books. He works as a literary history, poetry, and essay-writing tutor. He is currently finishing a manuscript for his first poetry book collection Recovering.