CHRONOGRAM

All this time,

we were the moths.

In pants and socks.

Shirts on the

bedroom floor.

One day they will

make a film about us.

Chasing

candles, baking tarts.

We have

danced around the dust.

And so

I have loved you,

dawn through

dusk,

quivering wings rising in

teeth,

    sugar,

                 peach and

                                         tongue.

Luís Costa (he/they) is, among many things, an anxious queer poet living in London who enjoys writing about relationships and desire. Longlisted for the 2022 Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry and a finalist of the Write Bloody UK competition, his recent work can be found in Visual Verse and Stone of Madness. Luís holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, and enjoys Baroque music, numbers and wine. He tweets @captainiberia.