by Clayre Benzadón

Stack of hay, 
a needle inside of a puzzle. 

It’s his, the goblet of our 
collarbones match. 

He either sleeps in the sun 
or dies from it, from 

the light, the puzzle,  
the match. 

Clayre Benzadón (she / they) is a queer (bi /pan) Sephardi-Ashkenazi poet, educator, and activist. Her manuscript, Moon as Salted Lemon was recently named an honorable mention for Miami Book Fair’s 2025 Emerging Writer’s Fellowship and was chosen as a winner for Driftwood Press’s Editor’s Pick Poetry Prize. She has been published in places including Jet Fuel Review, Libre, and SWWIM. Find more about her here: clayrebenzadon.com.