G. Cedillo : Writing

Because I Love You, An Elegy

Because I Love You, An Elegy

A Poem by G. Cedillo


for Emma Oliver
A Man, Only More So

A Man, Only More So

A Poem by G. Cedillo


You hate to admit nothing cosmic has happened today. No alien race of Amazon women crash-landed in your backyard like in your 13-year-old dream.Your t..
At the Bed of the Unknown Dreamer

At the Bed of the Unknown Dreamer

A Poem by G. Cedillo


How should you tell the morning what you’ve seen?Like a bride, bring your life nervously to bedwith its mutual longings nonetheless foreign.Have..
Untitled #1 ("Outside a Union-Pacific...")

Untitled #1 ("Outside a Union-Pacific...")

A Poem by G. Cedillo


Outside a Union-Pacific locomotive of poets I dream, a jump-cut sequence compressed and stored from old Westerns: an overhead shotof bandits riding in..
Sundown

Sundown

A Poem by G. Cedillo


What else do we open this recklessly, when even the gloomcedes its last hesitant lightfrom the garden’s tin canopy?Our struggles today broke fre..
Time in the Monument

Time in the Monument

A Poem by G. Cedillo


Fasten History’s seatbeltlike a drum’s tight wire gutsit’s gotten too high tonightand cannot be trusted to drive.Lower the window so..
The Not-Self

The Not-Self

A Poem by G. Cedillo


after Octavio Paz
Lovesong

Lovesong

A Poem by G. Cedillo


"Ergo vivida vis pervicet et extra processit longe flamentia moenia mundi atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque." Lucretius, On the Na..
don't  let me pretend this moment isn't too tiring.

don't let me pretend this moment isn't too tiring..

A Poem by G. Cedillo


Her full weight balances gracefully on my nervousknee. I remember perfectly that motionless pullher aroma offered, her hair draws me in a quiettrance ..
National Interests

National Interests

A Poem by G. Cedillo


Down King Street’s rope lit restaurants and Christmas decorations we maze underneath lobby canopies, by antique valet standsfaces half-turned fr..