Almost Animal

  I heard they no longer sew eyelids of the dead shut. When I pressed…

Writing Home: An Introduction

Hiraeth is a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, a home that maybe…

What The Bear Knows

A black bear was on the run in Paterson, New Jersey. He appeared, seemingly from…

Ghosts

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

Three Poems

Solitary Encounters His intellect reminded me of Spanish Harlem, unpretentious but resonating, as he discussed…

Survival of Caguay

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

First Impressions of a Sister Home

I wanted to see Cuba before it changed, before US franchises imprinted their neon billboards,…

The Letter

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

CPG

Bloody wound Never healed Leaking on bricks Illusion of false propriety No priorities for public…

Forever Shifting

I. Displacement is not the kind of thing that typically brings song immediately to mind,…