Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Manuel Rivas Joseph Coelho

Joseph Coelho

an anthem of desire against erasure

these two figures find each other in the poet’s imagination

from mantras and incantations

Following the completion of the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Manuel Rivas Joseph CoelhoA teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again. Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isnt always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesnt. Silence becomes Rubys refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mothers mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere. Plangent,