Category: Issue 11
Not For Your Comfort & The Girl Who Speaks In Color
i speak in color / because color is how i was made: /
Mi primera palabra
Así no estaba la calle. Hay lumbre en los carros y en las casas; huele mucho a cohete. En el cielo vuelan esas cosas. Suenan como abejorros grandotes.
primera generación & The Creation of Arepas
brown skin blended into soil /
hair strands into grass blades /
arms molded into anthills /
La bruja
The coughing came from deep inside her chest. It was intense, almost violent. La Bruja leaned forward, trying to calm the cough, holding a handkerchief over her mouth, but a dizzy spell hit her, and she found herself tipping over.
The Rules Don’t Apply
It’s been three days of isolation. They’re talking about building a trail through the state park so residents can get back and forth to civilization on foot. A helicopter is coming to evacuate the stranded tourists at Sorrento Lodge. The bakery is out of flour.
Inventory & Slam Dancing at the University of Chicago, 1992
Conocí a tu madre, she says /
but I don’t ask her to say more /
On Times Square Or (The Duality Between Reality and Illusion)
This stark dichotomy between illusion and reality was reflected in Kim Kyung-Hoon’s seminal photograph of a mother fleeing tear gas with her daughters at the border.
how to sleep through a storm
it’s not a soothing storm; not the rain channel you put on when you can’t sleep /
(or attempt to heal yourself of trauma with) at times the storm is louder
Now Entering Ayer
“What do you know about Aleph Syndrome?” Dr. Aristizábal averted Ivy’s penetrating gaze and began moving her hand away from her ear.
12 Collages
“Tapadas” was the name designated to Limeña women during the Viceroyalty of Peru and the early years of the Republic who wore shawls completely covering their body except for one eye.