Chicago

i’m from where the block talk backwhere the sidewalk remember your name even if the city don’tL tracks rattlin my thoughts loosesirens remixing my childhood every night learned numbers by…

Sofrito Heartbreak

He woke up with the coquí’s song stuck in his throat, tongue dry like sun-bleached coral, heart still marinating in the vinegar of her leaving. She left in a whirlwind—…

i remember jackie

i remember jackie’s hair, thick and black, salt-wet from the sea,the way it clung to her neck when we’d walk the cracked streets of viejo san juan,our chocolate lab’s nails…