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Steven Sanchez Waterfowl With the webbing tornfrom his right foot, his toes pointperpendicular to the ground before each step like a danceraware of his body’s whole weight. I tell myself he walks with grace,that his foot isn’t limp like a wrist. (I want to make himpowerful.) I will break him a piece of this loaftoContinue reading “Steven Sanchez – Waterfowl”

Steven Sanchez Narcissus They want you to believe I died by my own vanity. I knelt down to drink my reflection  and cooed to the man watching  me. I lifted him from the water,  stroked his hair, tucked it behind his ears, and held   myself   for the first time.  I learned how toContinue reading “Steven Sanchez – Narcissus”