Honoring Hispanic Heritage

  1 “WHY IS HISPANIC HERITAGE GOOD TO LEARN ABOUT?” sits in neat, Times New Roman typeface, the standard 12-point font and double-spacing, about two thirds down the GoogleDoc. It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, October 2024, and I’m substitute teaching for a former colleague at a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In an effort to prepare […]



I Dream of Vacuums

This is my calling. To vacuum and to share this joy with others.


The Tiger

Remember the warm bib smeared down the tiger’s chin too beautiful to be violence. Gone are these days.


From the Archives: Texas

Neither of us were drunk. It was just dark outside, the streets narrow, and we were turning a bend, and then the quiet thump beneath us, like a balloon deflating.




Get Our Newsletter





RECENTLY PUBLISHED


Image shows a wide shot of a bright orange sun against a red sky, with darker clouds streaking over it. A flat landscape with some mountains in the distance can be seen outlined by the light. The colors range from light orange at the top to deep red near the bottom.

Sunrise

We, who come upon grief / like the hooves of a beast / cresting a hill


Three trophy designs. The trophy on the left includes cymbals and a horn; the center trophy has a lyre and two horns; the trophy on the right, a xylophone and a horn. The plate is signed, but the numbering has been trimmed.

“Leyla” and other poems

"Maybe we should never have left the forbidden paradise
the winged key fled taking flame"


Original art by Daniel Giachetti

How Things Go

And like everyone else, I'll want to start a band


Cover of BEHIND THE GATE, which is a bright purple background with a bright pink skeleton hand reaching up with a black crow on the pointer finger bone.

The Mirror

We sat a while in silence like two strangers, facing each other. I didn’t ask her what had happened or what she had seen, or believed she had seen, in the mirror.


Where?

Did she tell me before we were born, we were waiting in the dark? Like leaves hanging on a black tree?