Category: Issue 5
Edgar Alvarado and His Mal-Sueño of Real Estate
The dreams will get worse, and you will never sleep very well. Actually, you’ll get to a point where you won’t sleep at all. This kind of mal-sueño really will kill you.
los alfas visten de rosa
los alfas visten de rosa, /
como Juanga, como Walter /
adornados con lentejuelas /
con flores y mariposas, /
Ms. Perez Plans Her Funeral
Since she couldn’t dream about life, she decided to spend time imagining her death.
Review of Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri
Ulibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions. Through the lenses of bio- and necro-politics, she explores who dies, socially, politically, and economically as well as bodily so that others may live and thrive.
Supernatural Boxes of the Borderlands
I have heard that seeing a shadowy figure with a hat is demonic. However, I would counter that it took place in Juarez and it could be a ghost of a Mexican Revolutionary.
Black Beans and Ham Hocks
Sometimes, I feel like the ham hocks /
left in the pot of beans to soften.
