Danni Beltran: Between Sunlight and Shadow

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

Between Sunlight and Shadow

For once I’m here wishing I could soften…
Say I’m sorry to myself more often
Than anything. Never able to obey—
My one tragic flaw. Can’t say I saw it.
Call a draw between Heaven/ Hell. Mark line
Down center—I hold it all within me.
Like Sin transgresses against Divine Law—
Grow and begin anew each passing year.
Turn body into garden, paradise.

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Danni Beltran is a queer, Latinx poet and creative nonfiction writer living in Troy, New York. They are an editor with the Pine Hills Review. They have work forthcoming in Ethel.