OIKOS* Camilo Garzón
poetry
Camilo Garzón (b. 1993, Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian American poet based in the East Bay Area. He graduated from Rollins College with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Religious Studies in 2015. He is currently a managing editor for Poets Reading the News. His work has been featured – or is forthcoming – in on-off. site, Rollins College’s Brushing Art and Literary Journal and The Independent, it has been read to an audience at LITEROCALYPSE, and it has been published in two self-published works: “Entombed: A proem in five stages” and “Ontologies: Ten Proems.”
It’s only in the house of the impoverished in spirit, that you’ll be able to find grace. The emphasis of what’s lacked will be seen in the austerity of what’s fairly given. And critical, we are, of each other’s motives. This instance, this set bar, is only as low as its motifs. Because, I know now, I have only those keys that are of no use to me. The ones that led me and them to commiserate in boredom and replenish this oceanic feeling by replacing our hobby for a fish toss. Like the home found for a pain who lacks the condition of being part of the house. Living in a nucleus of warmth, these cold, dingy particles, speed up the periphery of what’s damp.
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