after Russell Edson (1928-2014)
During a birthday party, when a piñata splits open and rains down miniature sheep that splatter when they land on the floor below, the children should not pick the miniature sheep carcasses up from the ground and put the carcasses inside their mouths like candy. The children should not use miniature sheep bones as toothpicks. Esos niños extraños should not smear miniature sheep blood onto their faces as a form of war paint in preparation for their coming-of-age ritual.
Steve Castro is a Costa Rican surrealist whose poetry has appeared in 32 Poems, DIAGRAM, Bayou, miCRo series, The Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, The Spectacle, Gallus: Poetry Scotland's Sassy Sibling, Green Mountains Review, Salamander, The Florida Review, Image, Notre Dame Review, etc. It’s forthcoming in Tampa Review, Water~Stone Review, Huizache, Laurel Review, Cream City Review, The Boiler, The National Poetry Review.