Riley Ratcliff is a poet from San Antonio, Texas, or Yanawana, meaning “Spirit Waters” in the Coahuiltecan language. She was born on Auia (Galveston Island) and currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, in unceded Wôpanâak and Nahaganset territory. She loves to be written to — rileyratcliff @ proton dot me

Translation

This dry mouth 
pregnant tomorrows
kids
This dry mouth
empties into one name
from another
GravityLorem’s solicitude
a low
communication





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