MiPOesias Magazine

Cosme Caballero was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Florida. He has had work published in Diagram and Identity Theory.

SYNONYMS; WORKING THROUGH KEATS’S ODES, NO.1

O Knockout! catch 

these craggy digits

screw thou 

buttoned-up 

unspoilt wife of close-mouthedness

no no 

go not to repression 

neither snarl

my ticker throbs 

and a snoozy comatose hurts

junctures of pea-soup 

and aged blossoming




SYNONYMS; WORKING THROUGH KEATS’S ODES, NO.2

pensioner of censorship and creeping 

by syrupy martial law 

and 

flashback 

doll face

thou 

go

my sight 

as though of hemlock 

I had gulped Casanova’s venom 

sturdy poke 

for its deadly booze

warm companion 

of the developing light