Ángel Garcia
Ángel Garcia (?-present) is currently a creative writing PhD student at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He received his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Redlands and an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Teeth Never Sleep and the cofounder of the nonprofit organization Gente Organizada. A Latinx poet, Garcia is the recipient of the CantoMundo Poetry Prize. Source
Stampede
You don’t know this horse.
What you love most doesn’t
Have a name and runs wild.
Ridden with guilt, you slept
in a field, naked and hungry,
committed to memory the cold
how it sunk its teeth into your
body one mouthful at a time.
That night all the small animals
you’d buried came alive. You
told yourself, don’t be afraid.
I am no longer that man. Laid
your head on the dirt and watched
the grass trill, heard the beating
In your chest for the first time:
the beasts starting to stampede.
Published:
2016
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2020
Themes:
Mental Health
Literary Devices:
Alliteration
the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words appearing in succession
Enjambment
a line break interrupting the middle of a phrase which continues on to the next line
Personification
the attribution of human qualities to a non-human thing