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 […]
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I Dream of Vacuums
This is my calling. To vacuum and to share this joy with others.
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The Tiger
Remember the warm bib smeared down the tiger’s chin too beautiful to be violence. Gone are these days.
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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.
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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?


