Poetry
Summer 1995
Explain
Once in a while God takes poetry away from me.—ADELIA PRADO When I can’t speak, the guitar of my dead brother announces a deep longing for what should have been, […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
The Heat of Arrivals
There are ways to take the heat of arrivals, when the hundred-year-old flower opens in the gray-haired woman and she forces you to stand in the sun. There are reasons […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
How?
We were told that bodies rising to heaven lose their vulvas, their ovaries, wombs, that her body in resurrection becomes a male body.—SUSAN GRIFFIN She died and did not become […]