Prose, Poetry, and Art since 1956
Never odd or even, we bear the saint’s confession given over daily as scars mating, we grow in freedom from sin when the music stops, a number he chooses from the cakewalk of us broken boy rhymes in steps fall to take and to be taken by him, to watch the other boys in hostility at the square dance of our relations, our Hialeah fathers…
Her skin seeps like soup.It’s not a perfect Revlon match,Oils jumping toward the waiterFor a glass of water and the entréeHasn’t even arrived to save her.Do you remember your mum’sFirst sweat at fifty, like a tableclothWas being ripped from her shouldersAnd she could not scream,And she was stiller than a smokingChimney? The secret betweenMothers and daughters is thatWe are the same in too many ways,No…
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Every morning, before the sun or just after the sun has come depending on the season, I sip my coffee and watch the men push the cart. They are going uphill in a hurry, up to The Crossing, which they will not cross. Later, once I’ve gone to the office, returned home, prepared my evening soup, and am again sitting at the window, I will…
We pushed an air conditioner strapped to a metal dolly all the way uptown. We opened two bottles of beer by the window, sat cross-legged on an unfolded yoga mat, tapped the cold tips together under the sharp flow of air. Finally, we thought. I don’t remove the air conditioner after you leave the city. The window remains clamped down; a mouse caught in a…