We are one tremendous
field of undulating
flowers

waiting till it happens

We were taught to stir batter in the rain and stand tall. This would make cakes in the forest and girls too proud to climb trees.

Their husbands’ rigid fists became hands glib with plant soil, and instead of bruises down their thighs, they saw hickies planted like booby-traps along their collarbones.

There's been a mistake, I said. That's not my father.

I don’t want to talk about God or war. Instead I want to talk about the invention of coats.

She was born in Guatemala. She insists we watch shows set in Los Angeles.