epub |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Natalie Scenters-Zapico

My Brother climbed a chain-link fence to get to the river. He sat by the river’s brush to witness how dry it had become. In the sand he found a ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-15 | Author:Dana Gioia [Gioia, Dana]

III. Move away, if you wish, to the white Sierras, Or huddle in the smoky canyons of Manhattan. You’ll miss the juvenescent rapture of LA Where ecstasy cohabits with despair, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Cruz [Cruz, Cynthia]

Fragment So this is twilight. What holds this moment together. When in the film, in which I star as myself, I say I want to be you, what I mean ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Anna V.Q. Ross

Pastoral Alarm call of gull in the Ikea parking garage, and I turn, expecting claws, to find only beams and ceiling pipes. Then a starling screams by the red-lit E ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Alexandra Regalado [Regalado, Alexandra Lytton]

Portrait of My Father X Days Before Dying He has been dying for six years. The first cancer took hold in his throat, the tumor like a pit of amber, ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-13 | Author:Sandra Cisneros [Cisneros, Sandra]

For the New Year I will buy myself a chocolate éclair filled with custard. Eat it slowly, with an infinity of joy, without concern of woe and tight underwear. Susan’s ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Raquel Salas Rivera [Alzadas, Voces]

Willie Perdomo, Mayra Santos Febres, Noor Ibn Najam, Ericka Florenciani, Fani Silva Santana, Sampson Starkweather, Jasmine Amussen, and Mon Zabala, among others. Thank you Irizelma Robles for being so sweet ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-16 | Author:Rhina P. Espaillat

Is it because, like Navajos, we’re afraid to leave bits of ourselves among strangers who may suck in our spirits through them? No, it’s not fear of the stranger who’ll ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Dana Gioia [Gioia, Dana]

COUNTING THE CHILDREN I. “This must have been her bedroom, Mr. Choi. It’s hard to tell. The only other time I came back here was when I found her body.” ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Barbara Reyes

This place before him was not a void but a crawl space, a tunnel he carved for himself inside his mother’s body dying all around him. He broke right through ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-17 | Author:Laurie Ann Guerrero [Guerrero, Laurie Ann]

STRAY CAT She was fat. Round as the moon, just as gray. She didn’t have time for hiding, for safety, for hissing away onlookers. Her legs jerked and out rolled ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-12 | Author:Tomás Q. Morín [Morín, Tomás Q.]

Royal Silence for c. dale young This much I know, as I came down the mountain and the valleys were revealed and my ears clogged so that all I could ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-18 | Author:Darrel Alejandro Holnes

by remembering, as she desperately closes her eyes like fists and fights you to forget— A woman you can’t stop loving, come bruise or blood shine. Hold her, if you ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Benjamin Garcia

A Toast to the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The waitress tending our party of three dips her tanned torso over the table as she grabs the menus from us ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Juan Felipe Herrera

Address Book for the Firefly on the Road North #3 when we reach the family shrine made of twigs bitten cloth shrubs & dirt we bow Interview w/a Border Machine ...