2016 Spring – Atravesando

Atravesando

This anthology of fiction and poetry embraces the themes of breaking through and crossing over.…

Future Tense

Minerva missed seeing the Pacific Ocean that first time because she was asleep. When she…

My Great Grandmother in the Kitchen

  She watches me, her transparent face reflecting in panes of glass, echoing in gas…

Upon Viewing my Daughter Drowning as a [Continuous Loop]

the   water  is   deafness pulling         a      …

The Eternal Pursuit of the Whale’s Song

My fiancé Simon, my mother, and I boarded Air Hawaii from the Houston Intercontinental Airport…

The choices we make

She said to me the word is sacred; in the beginning, there was el verbo.…

Poor Things

Rita uncoiled a length of twine and looked up at the cloudless April sky. The…

Tita Norma Wore a Headscarf

Two hunched-over, broken-down, little old brown ladies amble up your block. Their wrinkled heads wrapped…

poet: rigor mortis, zombies, & dehumanization

  after Night of the Living Dead (1968), 1:34:35, directed by George A. Romero and…