CrossBRONX: A Showcase for Bronx Writers & Artists

Click here for Oscar Bermeo’s audio recording of this poem.
 
 
The God of Craps
The God of the Lucky Shooter
The God of Blind Throws
The God of the Crumpled Dollar Bill
The God of Just One More Throw
The God of the Mighty Seven
The God of Next Time
The God of the Hard Six
The God of the Double Six
The God of Capicú
The God of Loose Bones
The God of Loose Change
The God of the Lottery Ticket
The God of the Scraping Blade
The God of Five Out of Six Numbers
The God of the Daily Number
The God of Significant Dates
The God of Sports Scores
The God of the Fix Is In
The God of What Almost Was
The God of the Near Miss
The God of Better Luck Next Time

 
 
Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is a 2004 BRIO Award-winning poet and founding curator of the Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase. He now makes his home in Oakland, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.
 
Bermeo’s poems have appeared in Achiote Seeds, In the Grove, The November 3rd Club, OCHO, Small Press Distribution’s New Lit Generation, Spindle, as well as in the anthologies From Page to Stage and Back Again (Wordsmith Press, 2004), I Just Hope It’s Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), Points Not Found: Writings on the Meaning of Place (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 2006), 12 Ways: An Anthology of the 2007 Intergenerational Writers Lab (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 2007), among others.