My home is an open grave.
You can come in.
Collect and clean my bones.
Kiss the damp earth.
Don't ask me to dream.
Put a hat on my shadow.
Threaten the devil with trinkets.
Speak to me in the language of saints.
Trust me, honey.
The holy light illuminates us.
We are the consciousness of the rain.
The TV is on.
Smell my dirty body.
It's a reminder.
I am still outside.
-- Maximiliano Guzmán (b. 1991, Recreo, Catamarca, Argentina) is the author of the novella Hamacas (Zona Borde Editorial) He serves as an editor for the digital magazine La Tuerca Andante (Argentina). Recently published in Expat Press, HAD, Hobart, Midcult, Plague Circus Press, Don't Submit, and Burial Magazine.
