La Fiesta in the Placita
We cannot be more excited, pues, to start our ninth year of existence with this, our tenth issue!
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O Monterrey
amid rising nouns and verbs /
sidewalk adjectives 10 pesos /
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Little Green & My Father Cultivated the Rose of José Martí
“Esto,” she said, “es el rosa /
that never limits boundaries, /
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Sex In Spanish
You forget Juárez. You don't even look over I-10 on your way to campus; for all you know, it's still El Paso. El Paso, who birthed you, who took you in after the divorce and sheltered you in warmth, made you American, instead of Mexican, like your Father, but deep down you don't feel like her offspring.
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Lenguas
His tongues are powerful, with minds of their own, like three elephant trunks always dancing in the air. Not like they would ever cause any real damage, they just purple the skin.
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3 Poems
On the roadside, we stop /
for an economy of skins /
that hang on a rope: /
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The Elixir
Will 1934 be the year the jíbaro beats the Goliath that is the sugarcane industry?
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I dream of oceans these days
Sometimes, a dream is also a memory.
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