Benjamin Favero
Summer 2025 | Poetry
Another June at Huntington
the beach is filled with toenail clippings
through eyelashes it seems a sunny day
beak after beak pinches the sand
we hear the ocean rush out into California
I keep my toes down
and worry
you’ll be here forever
with the ghosts lost at sea
tied down to heritage
our daughters palm the sand and spill it on
their considerable thighs
the tight horizon seeps taupe into the crinkled ocean
the waves charge with Christian zeal
into foam chastened sand
Himalaya to Mariana bowling ball smooth
I wonder at the machines
such a clever God
Benjamin Favero was raised in Ogden, Utah in one of those stereotypically large Mormon families. He recently received his MFA in Creative Writing from UNLV. His writing has been published in Weber: The Contemporary West, Gulf Stream Magazine, Sonora Review and elsewhere.