Poetry |
“The Pacific” and “Desperado”
Poetry |
“Meat Grinder”
Poetry |
“Contracting”
Fiction |
“Two Visions”
“We couldn’t know that by nightfall, they would be upon us with their rapid hearts and their gnashing teeth.”
Poetry |
“Windsor Road”
Essay |
“Jabas”
“If you were really Cuban, you would have learned sooner to carry plastic bags, tucked in your purse, in pockets, down the front of your shirt.”
Poetry |
“Mafia Myth” and “Midlife Aubade”
Fiction |
from My Mother’s Tears
“… she delivered this sentence that, true or false, desolates, rots the soul: You must always, at every moment, distrust everyone around you … Even your father … And even your mother …”
Poetry |
“Early Winter By the Fire”
Essay |
“How The Sausage Is Made” and “Dispatch”
“He eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and watches a television show about vocabulary. His father calls to say goodnight and is mildly disgruntled that the child is watching television.”