Sara Borjas Girl Garbage cans again when I close my eyes. A girl in a one piecetreading water our father filled a garbage can with. My hand grips the edge of something empty:an apology, a simple green tub, her body pushes a broom along the floor. My father carves slow jams into the summer heat,Continue reading “Sara Borjas – Girl”
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Sara Borjas – Narcissus Tells a Ghost Story
Editor’s note: for mobile users, this poem is best viewed in landscape mode. Sara Borjas Narcissus Tells a Ghost Story Look at my mother it’s hard to believe we aren’t already ghosts that llorona cries in the morning the constant trickle of tv dramas & doctor bills lighting her face before she drinks Continue reading “Sara Borjas – Narcissus Tells a Ghost Story”
Sara Borjas – Love Poem
Sara Borjas Love Poem Here is one way love granulates: he tells you he no longer loves you and you carry your enormous basket of his laundry back downstairs. You begin dating and he throws a lasso around your neck but is too weak to pull you back. Continue reading “Sara Borjas – Love Poem”
Sara Borjas – Letter Beginning in My Voice and Ending in My Mother’s
Sara Borjas Letter Beginning in My Voice and Ending in My Mother’s Don’t act like when you warm up rice in the microwave tonight you won’t think about the mornings you dried out coke on the blue ceramic plate—the one with honey painted gladiolas, heat glittering into creases of your fingers. And don’t pretend when you smudge blackContinue reading “Sara Borjas – Letter Beginning in My Voice and Ending in My Mother’s”
Sara Borjas – Each Day, I Have a Difficult Time Getting Started
Editor’s note: for mobile users, this poem is best viewed in landscape mode. Sara Borjas Each Day, I Have a Difficult Time Getting Started I create to do listsI read an essay about white fragilityI am mad at my dad for not acknowledging meI cook egg whites from a cartonI wash the bed sheets andContinue reading “Sara Borjas – Each Day, I Have a Difficult Time Getting Started”
