KNOT Magazine
Fall Issue 2022
Maria Castro Dominguez
Raw meat
he walked out one night
unbuttoned the space
he had bled into
black cap sack anorak
collection of lies and automatic
inside he meant to go naked
but just one day
after his unexpected soul
exploded
Love forlorn
I move with speed In case
fate forsakes me colliding
earlier words a dead-line
staggering sun on the screen
I walk blind typing
slide my fingers quick to
love you- when
the phone goes dead
Riddle me
a marvellous equation he is
I try to unfold a buccaneer sometimes
others a haunting figure
to translate him into my
made-up man
I can´t resolve the variables across the screen
our fingers have even touched but
they evade me every time I slide into
a nuance of his
María Castro Domínguez was born in London. She has a book of poetry titled "Four Hands” (A Cuatro Manos) with Jacobo Valcárcel, and has contributed to several newspapers and magazines, including Blaze Vox, Retort, The Argotist, Message in a Bottle, and Bareknuckle Poet, among others. In addition, Maria is a Freelance writer and translator with a Bachelor´s Degree in English Philology.