Isai Jaimes is an experimentalist poet, born in Trinidad and raised in Venezuela, England, and the USA. His passion for art comes from a hero complex that overwhelms his nature. He is currently working on an opera libretto based on the Echo and Narcissus myth as told by Ovid, and his first book of poetry, Apollo 21c, is in the waiting room for publishing.

In the room

He’s suspended flat against a top corner.

The walls line together in pyramid between his eyes.

Two inches below the nostrils:

His tongue sticks out

like a red balloon flapping for its life.

Above his head,

Ears pulled up most,

A big exclamation point

Stretches halfway across the ceiling

And seeing a flame let go off a candle:

‘How curious, does Living jump off its wick

And in smoke cheer pirouette so?’