Witness Description I
by Héctor Ramírez
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First the eyes yes // I remember // teeth so eerily white against the // nose was more // missing // and those ears // I remember // unusually familiar // yes the dark // unusually // lips // and the hair was // pierced yes I remember // maybe // no facial hair // cheek tattoo of // left eyebrow yes slits in the // right cheek below the // shaved head // maybe // yes I remember // hair was dark // the lips were large // familiar // yes the dark // unusually familiar // I’ll never forget // those large ears // missing yes // the nose // and the teeth so eerily // yes I’ll never forget the // eyes // covered. Eyes covered. Yes. I can see him. I can see him if I cover my eyes. I’ll never forget. There he is. That’s him. That’s him.
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Composite Sketch I
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Eyes dark nose flat lip piercing cleft chin teeth missing pronounced brow square jaw high cheeks large ears. Pronounced ears nose piercing dark brow cleft jaw missing lip square teeth large eyes flat cheeks high brow. Square nose large cheeks dark chin pronounced eyes high lip ears piercing cleft brow flat teeth missing jaw. Piercing eyes large chin dark teeth high jaw square cheeks cleft lip pronounced nose flat brow missing ears. Cleft nose ears square flat chin high eyes missing brow piercing cheeks pronounced teeth dark jaw large lip. Large brow cleft cheeks square chin high nose dark lip pronounced jaw flat ears piercing teeth missing eyes.
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Héctor Ramírez is a writer and educator living in Boulder, CO. He received his B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2012 and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he also serves as the assistant director of the CU Boulder Upward Bound program. He reads fiction submissions for Timber Journal and is an event coordinator at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. He is a co-editor of the poetry anthology Bettering American Poetry (forthcoming from BlazeVox books), and his work appears in or is forthcoming from Apogee, The Café Irreal, Buffalo Almanack, Vannevar, American Book Review, The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog, and elsewhere.