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Dominga Corazon: A Poem of Remembrance
In the mountainsthey found her—brass lodged in her brow,her bonestelling of her suffering. The rosary her brother gave herfor her weddinghung from her white jawbone,where her teeth should be;Felled by the butt 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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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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At Sea – a poem
A surreal dream poem where a lover wakes clutching a whalebone as the bedroom floods into a dark sea, haunted by mermaids, a distant buoy, and the fading light above deep water.”
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[Say that I am welcomed, that I have gone mad]
A luminous homage to Maria Elena Cruz Varela, this poem burns with tenderness and defiance—where love becomes both rebellion and prayer, and the body remembers freedom through its own light.