Tender Birria

[A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: As my lesbian marriage was disintegrating, I experimented with dating…

Esto no puede ser nomás que una canción (excerpt from Rhyme and Reason) by Criseida Santos-Guevara

Translated from the Spanish by Amira Plascencia-Vela There’s a song stuck in my head, and…

Poe Park

Bronx, NY (1847-Present) From this cottage,where he heardhis young cousinbride, Virginia (our Annabel Lee), fighther…

Pastelitos

They were starving. All he had in his fridge was a pack of la masa…

On Chrysanthemums of Hunger and the Reckless Moss of the Body

If only finches, phoebes, mourning doves could say – rice exploded in our foundling avian…

Untitled & Ze

S****************: T***************L ARS IN A BOW El Paso. ZE All summer we set out to…

Besieged

“Ah Sweet Soul,” says Love, “You know more than you are sayng.” Marguerite Porete from…

Selected Poems

From the series To our Poets (to Orides Fontela) I left some roses here, near…