I want to fill

                           all our coffee mugs

                                                      with rain water

and leave them

                           around the house.

                                                      (This is a metaphor

for how I love.)

SG Huerta is a Chicano poet from Dallas. They are pursuing their
MFA at Texas State University where they serve as the nonfiction
editor for Porter House Review. SG is the author of the chapbook The
Things We Bring with Us: Travel Poems (Headmistress Press, 2021).
Their work has appeared in Infrarrealista Review, Variant Lit, and
others. They live in Texas with their partner and two cats. Find them
at sghuertawriting.com or on Twitter @sg_poetry