The boutique owner / pulled from racks / variations on the same / pricey and shapeless dress / and as I tried them on / she whispered into the fitting room, / “I wanted to burn everything I wore / …
driving / through Tor / nillo & / I feel / all the / children / we can’t / see / in / his / America. He / is the pro / noun / of the govt / stand in / for hu / man u / have that / a lot // line / …
he shows me the difference between years / and ears in vain I say that we have two / words for it in my language (mine and his / too I correct myself ): this one word for / the outside bare skinned …
“she broke down and let me in” / playing at the café in Venice // at my computer i squint / my coffee is cold and a hooded dude / beside me looking also at my screen / “if you’re going to …
Set chopped up his rival Osiris and scattered the pieces across the world. Isis was the first queen and the first witch. The first spell went like this: For a year Isis roamed the earth gathering up …
When my uncle, Onoima, returned from South Africa, he did not talk about what he had seen there. He only slept for hours, waking in the middle of the night to shuffle around the kitchen for something …
Sometimes, when I apologize to my husband during an argument, I picture cartoon versions of us, our bodies turned into stereotypes. An Asian woman, curtained by her hair, lowers her head into her …
You would think someone were, somewhere, burning— / trying to burn— / what could have otherwise been called a rainbow. // And why should feathers make plain with color / their tiny, interior …
Around the time he entered the eighth grade, Agustín began to watch pornography on a blue iMac he had salvaged from a dumpster. There was a McDonald’s next door to his apartment building, and he …
