Highlight Piece
Each month we highlight a post from SaltiWords Substack.
don’t believe what u c
Men in business suites
run around naked
in the woods. smoking
branches. watching squirrels straddle on
tears
drip
down
red
flesh is yellow
when it dries, the smell
of charcoal and sweet flowers,
nesting in between pinewood,
the way pinatas split open,
and spill out candy. the women
hang from trees. the children
play dead.