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Sarah A. Chavez – I am an inconsistent lover

Sarah A. Chavez I am an inconsistent lover to all things in which I have given my love. My love is not fickle. Giving it is like prying open the maw of a fox trap. The hinges want so badly to stay closed, but to fit steel tooth into steel tooth is to starve. OnceContinue reading “Sarah A. Chavez – I am an inconsistent lover”

Sara Borjas – My Heart

Sara Borjas My Heart after Frank O’Hara I’m not going to smile all the timenor shall I cry carrying myself to sleep,I don’t recommend one rush over another.I’d crawl up the peak of my murmur & melody, become an invulnerable bridge, but also the battlethat is overproduced on either side. I want to dieat leastContinue reading “Sara Borjas – My Heart”

Juan Luis Guzmán – BREAKUP SONNET iii.

Author’s note: From a series of BREAKUP SONNETS In using this form, I looked to challenge it and to intentionally queer it in content, grammar, language, and with the assistance of predictive text from my iPhone. Juan Luis Guzmán iii. At the author’s request, this poem has been temporarily removed. It may return to the site inContinue reading “Juan Luis Guzmán – BREAKUP SONNET iii.”

Sarah A. Chavez – Because There is Shadow, I Know There is Light

Sarah A. Chavez Because There is Shadow, I Know There is Light I am envious of my younger self for whom death turned our face toward the light of poetry. Older me, me of now: death is the shadow cast from the hulk of an impossibly wide trunk, bark: thick scales and time hardened; branch: crinkle-crackle misdirection. Poetry seems just Continue reading “Sarah A. Chavez – Because There is Shadow, I Know There is Light”

Sara Borjas – A woman walks by with a baguette on her shoulder

Sara Borjas A woman walks by with a baguette on her shoulder A woman walks by with a baguette on her shoulder.Am I going to write, after that, about domestic pressures? Another sits in front of the ATM, kills a cockroach, laughs at nothing.How dare one speak about access to opportunity & the American dream?Continue reading “Sara Borjas – A woman walks by with a baguette on her shoulder”