Cathedrals: Ode to a Deported Uncle
Tío, you learn there’s always a border—I imagine a poor family in Jocotepec takes you in. You work as a […]
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Foreign-ness
1. “I’m not obsessed,” Violette says, “just really passionate about you trimming your side of the hedge.” In translation from
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Punch Line
One night I was the first dancer in the bar. My shift hadn’t started. I had time to get ready.
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Self-Portrait By Someone Else
The afternoon we traced our 2nd grade bodies with poster paint, legs V-shaped on paper like the outlines of victims
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Honesty
It’s true I drove an SUV once through Fresno with a backseat full of college boys to whom I found
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Objective Correlative
Start with a bird. A petrel. No, a shearwater. Whatever. You start with a shearwater, then add a backdrop. An