Oysters / Ostras

  Oysters I often stop on my way home from midtown meetings at the Oyster Bar…

No Cessation/ No Escampa

  No  Cessation When you’re not here and the jungle has swallowed you, I spend my time gathering…

Flashes / הבזקים

  Flashes Rattling train,  unloading, moving away,  a barrage of gunfire, the stitching of machines, gathered…

Rogelia James Is No Pendeja

Dad let me stew in the holding cell for eight hours. By then, the vomit…

Ghosts

The signs started appearing again, and with them, the dreams that Soledad thought had disappeared…

Survival of Caguay

All hail the day of the Burst. Diaján and Freca, leaders of the Tainex@s, signaled…

The Letter

Sitting on my fire escape, I could see up the avenue beyond the Baptist church…

Dying Down in the Heart

From within her taxi, the girl takes in the half-built and skeletal structures, the night…

The Structure of Bubbles

I After a lifetime of smoking Virginia Slims, my grandmother was dying of lung cancer in the oncology…

Powder Puff

You can’t rush this. Nuh uh. That’s why you get up at four in the…