Smokestacks by Luis Torres

I look out the window and see
myself looking out,
the mountains blue in the rain, my profile
a cliff under the lamp’s
silver arch, and there’s
my forehead,
a landscape burned by the moon.


Luis Torres is an MFA poetry student at San Diego State University where he has been awarded the Sarah B. Marsh-Rebelo Scholarship for Poetry. He also serves as the Submissions Editor for Poetry International. He graduated cum laude from Emory University, where he studied Economics and Philosophy. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review.

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