Brennan DeFrisco likes words and the way they move. He is an MFA candidate at Antioch University Los Angeles in the Creative Writing Program with an emphasis on Poetry. He is an organizer and performer at the Berkeley Poetry Slam and his team took third place overall at the 2015 National Poetry Slam. He is co-founder of Lucky Bastard Press and author of A Heart With No Scars (Nomadic Press), Highku: 4 & 20 Poems About Marijuana (Lucky Bastard Press), and Dumb Luck, co-authored with Tim Toaster Henderson (Lucky Bastard Press). His work can be found or is forthcoming in Words Dance, The Poetry’s Intoxicated Corner, Drunk Monkeys, jmww’s Exquisite Duet, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal & Yellow Chair Review. He loves a particularly beautiful and talented woman, movies, poker, whiskey, and Firefly.
Brennan DeFrisco
(Mar/Apr 2016)
I want them to find us together
in whatever place
we've made for ourselves
metacarpals intertwined
bereft of time and breath
nothing left but our bones
to hold us up and us
holding only each other
If no bones are left, our indiscernible ashes
will use the wind to dance
every chance we get
If no ashes, our shadows will be seared
into a wall of old pictures
our silhouettes in perfect step
with one another
I want them to find us smiling
exactly where we wanted to be
when the end came
reflected in a loving gaze
moving to the music of heartbeats
unafraid of the moment our songs
can no longer be heard
I want them to find us and see
we had no intention
of letting anyone else
cut in