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  • Poem

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    el abanico

    By ire’ne lara silva
    we are taught the beauty of the rose
    the serenity of the soft and the still
    the austerity of silver stars…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFour generations

    By Angelina Sáenz
    There is a framed photograph of my grandmother
    She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china…
  • Poem
    By Angelina Sáenz
    I am a feminist who loves my sport
    and the machismo in charrería often gets to me

    To be clear
    I am not …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineYou can thank us later

    By Angelina Sáenz
    Brother charro
    do you realize
    that it is because of escaramuza
    that you have an audience?

    Our performances…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineme llamo viento

    By ire’ne lara silva
    they announce us      Valentina Covarrubias montada en Viento
    my girl does not cower           does not wave or smile…
  • Poem
    By Angelina Sáenz
    No
    I don’t dance horses
    I am not a mariachi
    I am not a baile folklorico dancer
    I am not the half-time show…
  • Poem
    By R. L. Swihart
    The migration continues. Continuous. Sporadic. 
    With mathematical complexity, wind 
    over sand 
     *
    Ropes …
  • Poem
    By Peter O’Leary
    Blood-gushered mountainside a brass parapegma of noon
    glares behind: gore of hides. Beasts all slain.…
  • Poem
    By Holly Mitchell
    1.
    After the beginning of the gallop, there are counts when the horse is in the air, her
    legs withdrawn…
  • Poem
    By John Tickhill
    In springtime, chief of all seasons,
            in May when new joys rise and flourish,
                    the sun is lord and messenger…
  • Poem

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    Stunt Double

    By Tomás Q. Morín
    In this life, there are stars
    and there are stunt doubles.

    Before I became one of those fathers
    obsessed…
  • Poem

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    Lil Mermaidz

    By Tayi Tibble
    Rinsing the sea salt out of our bikinis
    with the drinking water and getting a slap
    upside the head from…
  • Poem
    By Tracy K. Smith
    200 cows         more than 600 hilly acres

                property would have been even larger
    had J not sold 66 acres to …
  • Poem
    By C. D. Wright
    Water

    Cold as it sounds

    The storm glass

    Refilled and sealed

    With a wine cork

    The spout spilling…
  • Poem
    By Chris Abani
    A stream in a forest and a boy fishing,
    heart aflame, head hush, tasting the world—
    lick and pant. The…
  • Poem
    By Jim Daniels
    The strongest boy in our high school
    on the edge of Detroit did not play
    sports—he would’ve had to cut…
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