“I've come to learn: Packages / and bad news arrive regardless”
FICTION | NONFICTION | POETRY |
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SUBMIT STORE DONATE OPPORTUNITIES INTERVIEWS WRITERS WE PUBLISH
“When I open the door, I face the drooping sun. The light in my face is bright, not warm.”
“Recently, the doctor has been looking / at my ovaries. I mean: she shoved / a camera inside of me to get a glimpse”
“You are / distracted, so / the spirit / cannot summon / you at / midnight hunger”
“across the empty highway—how I slowed the car, prayed to survive that terrifying beauty.”
“I just want to tear away everything / that is irrelevant, and love you like a broken lever”
“…it seemed the farther they traveled from home, the closer they were to those stars.”
“Until these collections, I didn’t believe you could write short pieces so clearly inspired by Chicano life.”
“ships of rats to the farthest parts of the world. Here / if you empty a space, something will live in it.”
“I’d hear this man’s footsteps above me when in bed, trying to trap the sound of his feet with my eyes…”
“…I can see it’s a black, shrunken stick about ten feet high, stripped of the bark I once ran my fingers over.”
