Dorsía Smith Silva is a Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net nominee, Obsidian Fellow, and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her poetry is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, The minnesota review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She is also the author of Good Girl (poetry micro-chapbook), editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering, and the co-editor of six books. In addition, her poetry will appear as a part of the Atlantic City Poetry Walk with the Noyes Museum of Art. She has attended the Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, and the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop. She has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and posts at @DSmithSilva.

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Because we talk about ending our relationship on a holiday,

By DORSíA SMITH SILVA

Gravity ties
us to guide ropes, before the sycamore
trees collapse in our chest cavities.