Emmy Pérez, the author of Solstice (Swan Scythe Press, 2003), received an MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in Achiote Seeds, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, LUNA, New York Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, and other publications, including the anthologies The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007) andThe Weight of Addition: an anthology of Texas Poetry (Mutabilis Press, 2007). She […]
it’s pouring boys racing past lowered red truck stopped in hollywood flitter. she said it’s pouring conjunto. he said it’s pouring gals with tight jeans lit up with wow pow lights. it’s pouring morning in cerveza bottles, cucarachas walking upright on walls. security in golf cart rounds checking it all out. it’s pouring young men […]
It could be the jaguarundi’s Blood on my face
that twinkle only in your blinking to keep contacts from drying under the canopy of el paso sky where quails run across a dirt path and fly, momentarily, to hide in an evergreen while you pass blue and red handprints on a styrofoam paper plate – a child’s artwork not so tough for the child […]
Thinking all afternoon of Gloria Anzaldúa then indigo snake lifted a gorgeous head a field and river from México. All week before: Dickinson: “To Ache is human – not polite –” All twilight: indio snake, javelinas, rabbit, cloudy emerald water, the sound of frogs. The acrylic smell of carrizo. Deepish sleep and a woman we […]
Ed: We will post text of this poem pending publication in a forthcoming print journal..
Yellow pines No ever no green except where stems brown needles green I walk on the wooden train The fall’s water you swam in one cold morning What you braved That ice path A horse fence Where fences are horses with long hair I braid the tale the fall of stables Four paws touch dirt […]