history often erases those
who were secondary
to the white narrative
which explains why
the gun battery at the remote
Washington harbor defense
outpost is named after
a long dead Texas Ranger —
After eighteen hours, I went home alone and left my husband and son in the hospital. One of us needed to sleep. It was now light out and I howled as I drove. The animal part came up guttural, dry and round. It was the only sound that seemed to make sense. Words disappeared like gray morning vapor. The house was loud with emptiness when I arrived. The ghost of our busy buzzing life…
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There is much yelling, a president’s pursed beak of a chicken and a twist of tin ribbon in a critical region of brain. He calls for the messianic aestheticians, for a world exfoliated, depilated, a white egg...
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My work spins a cognitive web of interdimensional poetics. It is a practice of sculptural world building that stems out of my healing process after the death of my mother in 2019…
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did you hear? mama’s numbers hit
and the lights stayed on another day
the cold stayed away another night
peaches’ baby slid into today
healthy, juicy, and fat
and the insurance company
paid the bill in full
did you hear?
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The scent of dusty chicken feathers, roasted coffee beans and stale breath always reminded her of bitter goodbyes. Carina De León immediately recognized the smell as she stepped inside a congested bus on route to San Rafael Las Flores. The driver wore a straw hat. He sang along to a marimba song in a raspy voice, “Guatemala linda y feliz!”
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