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CHRONOGRAM

All this time,

In pants and socks.

bedroom floor.

make a film about us.

candles, baking tarts.

danced around the dust.

I have loved you,

dusk,

teeth,

            sugar,

                          peach and
 
                                             tongue.


we were the moths.

Shirts on the

One day they will

Chasing

We have

And so

dawn through

quivering wings rising in

 

Luís Costa (he/they) is, among many things, an anxious queer poet living in London who enjoys writing about relationships and desire. Longlisted for the 2022 Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry and a finalist of the Write Bloody UK competition, his recent work can be found in Visual Verse and Stone of Madness. Luís holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, and enjoys Baroque music, numbers and wine. He tweets @captainiberia

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