Snow illuminated the park
and you wanted to die. That winter
you slept with a saucer of water
under your bed. Every night. Woke up to find nothing
but the off-white-stare of the empty cup.
Spelled out your fantasies on my upturned
Eduardo Martínez-Leyva was born in El Paso, Texas to Mexican immigrants. His work has appeared in Poetry, the Boston Review, the Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Cowboy Park, won the 2024 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press.