Code-Switching & Autoethnography: A Forever Wound Sonnet

By Dom Blanco


AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: A FOREVER WOUND SONNET 

¿what is Cuba to me but 

          to Cuba what am i but

what is Cuba to me but 

          to Cuba what am i but

what is Cuba to me but 

          to Cuba what am i but

what is Cuba to me but 

          to Cuba what am i but

what is Cuba to me but 

          to Cuba what am i but

what is Cuba to me but 

          to Cuba what am i but

what is Cuba to me but 

          to Cuba what am i but?. . .


Dom Blanco is a Cuban American poet originally from Miami, FL, now based in Bloomingdale, IL, on the ancestral lands of the Potawatomi Nation. He holds a BA in Philosophy from DePaul University and an MFA from Randolph College. His poems are forthcoming/featured in MĀNOA Journal (Architectures of FuturoPasados Issue guest-edited by Anthony Cody), The Acentos Review, Huizache, The Brooklyn Review, Rise Up Review and more. Dom is the recipient of generous support from the Nancy Craig Blackburn Program.