Sometimes you touch my body and awaken it…
Sometimes
when I talk you listen,
stripped of concepts,
and become air
and flight,
and when I am lost
to this world
you force me
to return with soft
streams of words.
Sergio Ortiz is an educator. He is a three-time nominee for the 2010, 2011 Sundress Best of the Web Anthology, and a 2010 Pushcart nominee. He received a Commendation in the 2012 International Polish Haiku Competition. His poems appear in, Shot Glass, Notes from the Gean, Atlas Poetica, Skylark, A Hundred Gourds, Poetry Pacific, Lynx, and Kernels Online; are forthcoming in Ribbons.