ERROR 207: CORRUPTED FLESH
My right leg is the bridge now—
not metaphor, not myth—
just titanium where bone used to be,
rust blooming at the screws.
It grinds with the weight of years I cannot...
Los sueños son un hogar para las almas perdidas,
Con un sentimiento de soledad tan penetrante
Que me advirtió que no fuera a Hollywood,
Pero era mi corazón el que me dijo que tenía que ir.
En...
Homer’s The Odyssey presents an unconventional hero in Odysseus, whose egotistical nature, moral failings, and reliance on divine intervention exemplify the ancient Greek ideal of heroism but...
Hijo’s Incantation
Padre, ¿acuerdas when we split
one room with ten other immigrants?
Desearía tener my own space, but now, acercate –
descansa su cuerpo not six feet in the soil but...
“We’re afraid of being abandoned by the mother, the culture, la Raza, for being unacceptable, faulty, damaged.” –Gloria Anzaldúa
You’re at some Tia’s house for a birthday...
I don’t have thick skin
So I must nip my anger at the bud.
I can’t let it become a hangnail,
Haphazardly yanked against my say,
Getting caught at moments
Where my ire...
Circling Fences by August Wilson: Tracing the Contours of Love and Loss
"Some people build fences to keep people out... and other people build fences to keep people in." You could have shared...
A sleeping dog lies on the floor
His breath moves his whole body,
And I look at the walls and see how they have changed,
And into a mirror to see how my face has
grown
The air that I once exhaled...
She’s asleep in our bed
And I have just woken up.
Her head is on my chest,
Moving with the tides
Of my breath.
One of her hands is wrapped
Around my side.
While the other is squished
Between...
Lord Byron and the Death of Heat: An Ecocritical Reading of 'Darkness'
Lord Byron’s apocalyptic dream about the sun extinguishing in his 1816 poem “Darkness” has truth in reality because,...
I caught a glimpse of you.
Driving through the Grapevine
at the crux of midnight.
On the road to nowhere,
making something out of nothing
with the poison between our lips.
Angels...
