Brandon is a Wig-Maker
- Brandon is a Wig-Maker
Sunny in Los Angeles. Boulevard said to different effect than street.The mood is languorous as a poolside brunette, lime trees reachingover the low fence to drop their fragrant leaves at her feet.The afternoon was full of pictures, the intersections full of noise.Delivery men on motorized bicycles and someone's daughter dressingthe mannequin in a shop beneath the studio, accessorizing,the smog too adding glamor, a pink enhancement at dusk.Beauty is something claimed, confidence is borrowed—half-worn, half-spoken—energy, I guess. A plastic bird of paradise,a new mid-century sofa. Not pretending but not-not pretending.A posture toward that question: What words to use?His hand on my leg, my body spelling out its preferences.Chandelier, I tell him, pomelo, aqueduct, whatever turns you on. [End Page 94]
Nico Amador is a poet, community organizer and facilitator based in Vermont by way of San Diego and Philadelphia. His poems have appeared with Poetry Unbound, Bettering American Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Cortland Review, Hypertext Review, The Visible Poetry Project and elsewhere. His chapbook, Flower Wars, was selected as the winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and was published by Newfound Press in 2017. He is a grant recipient from the Vermont Arts Council, an alum of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Writers Retreat and an MFA candidate at Bennington College.
