Marc-Anthony Valle

[NU WAVE CLUBBER LOOKING FOR PART TIME LOVER]

NU WAVE CLUBBER LOOKING FOR PART TIME LOVER, who missed the exit for missed connections and landed in the classifieds. Writing (really) for my shnookums with the crazy eyes. Your brass buttons and shiny silver shoes. I miss your palms and kissing them like closing envelopes. My OOTD is sage green tee and Rorschach sweat spots. Come find me where the kids split pills like cracking knuckles. Where the rain came down, eventually, after we asked it to.
Marc-Anthony Valle is a mixed-Black poet from the Pacific Northwest. He received his MFA from WashU. Marc-Anthony was selected as a scholarship participant for the 2026 DISQUIET workshop in Lisbon. His work has been published or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Beloit Poetry Journal, swamp pink, Notre Dame Review, The Hopkins Review, Bat City Review, Frozen Sea, and elsewhere. Find him at marc-anthony.net