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  • Reptiles of the American South
  • Carlo André (bio)

He moves in white and warm lights revising a day or two,dressing, undressing, not seeing and seeing rooms.

I’m outside, by night’s throne of broken woods  swallowed in its river.

He’s in the folds of the unrest, a book of place—minding likea summoning. Path is internal, but the steps are spoken.

Me: looking up, at something else, something glassed,  a snake waiting.

Some seasonwhen the sliding door is too hot and the roomis breathing on its own, then it will come.I see it. He steps out of the cool into the temperaturethat earth absorbs. I slide in. We both dream together,coils and coils of sheets, children in the meadowwhere it clouds and dampens all the same. [End Page 88]

Carlo André

Carlo André is a Miami-raised South American migrant and U.S. war veteran. His work has been featured in Sand Journal, Pidgeonholes, Funicular, and others.

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