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The Taken: I
Set in East Los Angeles, 2025, "The Taken" is a powerful poem exploring how current policy impacts community life. At a wedding, unexplained absences—including the sudden disappearance of the taco vendor and the…
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Abandon – a poem
INTRO: This is an ecstatic poem I wrote a few years ago about letting go—about two people abandoning every rule, expectation, and old life to build something new together. It moves through…
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Fidelito – a poem
Fidelito follows a young Cuban exile who trades baseball dreams for illegal card games, lost Havana nights, and forbidden love. This Cuba poem blends longing, history, humor, and heartbreak into the story of…
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Sepulveda – a poem
This poem traces the uneasy space between longing and fear—the rising water in the shower, the anxious dog, the coyote under a streetlight, and the trembling that comes when memory and anxiety won’t…
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Six Poems for Sveta, the Day She Had Her Epiphany.
A six-poem epiphany cycle exploring a surreal and impossible relationship with Sveta. These poems move through moonlight, telegrams, spinning hearts, fractured responsibility, and the tension between desire and distance. Humor and ache sit…
