Child of the sea
“My father knows me by names / that are not mine. / Tonight, I’m the fishwife.”
Poetry
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view from the highway
“immodest / of a rural town displaying like that // its hill long”
Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched
“There is a word for the fear of water, but not of drowning. Another / for the fear of darkness, but not how it hides a person’s face.”
Two Poems
“an event-horizon / of question marks // all the way to / non-identity”
west harlem, july 2017
“black is everywhere but here it’s not a matter as much as it is a holy question”
Liberosis
“there’s a word for brown mothers and what they think is best: blanqueamiento”
For the Girls with Dead Horses
“where the girls with dead horses meet / to carefully unfold each creased page”
Salt
“legs wrapped like branches, / toes like roots as old as time”
LOVE IS A BUNDLE OF TEACHINGS
By Moira J.
“the word for breakup sex is salt”