and I wonder out loud,¿Qué es esto?Since when did bilingualism become a crime?My bones tremble in Spanish, qué miedoand I stuffmy double r’s and my ñ’s in betweenmy cheeks.I hold them hostage.I’d rather them be detained than I. Pero I think of my daughterand I put my immigrant fears aside.I spit out my chewed-up Spanish […]
Poems
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Total freedom is false freedom. How rules and constraints make our lives better
Limitations and rules are part of our daily lives. How do they make our lives more full?
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Under Sail
To hear what sirens was Jesus Christ
nailed to a tree, unable to move?
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The 2021 Foley Poetry Contest Winner: ‘Raising Mothers’
the sense of her knowing I have long been
motherless itself a mother to me
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Your Presence Is Requested
he pawed through his closet
like a bear in a blackberry bramble
