Andrea Giugni

I wish you warblers

I wish you the width 
of a green mountain. Wish you
guanabana. I wish you a blunt 
cut. Wish you a loose jaw. 
I wish you guilt, instead of shame 
for once. Wish you trees rolling 
into the wind. I wish you the shrieks
of backyard children at noon, ducking
out of hedges. Wish you sickless. 
Wish you sick with worry. Wish 
you tide pools. Wish you underwater, 
then sharply exposed to the sun. Wish you bad 
at math. Wish you cheesecake. 
I wish you never having met a man. 
I wish you never having met a man like that. 
Wish you your body. Wish you a power line 
to perch on. I wish you appetite. Wish you fog, 
lifting. Wish you another city. Another 
country. Another mountain. Wish you zinnias 
on the table. Wish you dogwood. 
Wish you seeing it all with 
me, my head on your cold shoulder.

Andrea Giugni (she/her) is a queer Venezuelan poet, editor, and translator. She currently studies poetry at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where she lives with her partner and their two cats, Salem and Pancake.