Borinkén
-
the house on fire
Themes: labor, inherited, survival, desire, bilingual the house on firewe were made to stay insidethe borderline. safety is not beyond measureyou once said, as we cross the plains in smoketo head to guánica baywe must first pass the sunflower fieldsthe red bricks of ghetto living onceheld the sun,the heat was pressed into my backnowdecayfresh orange en…
-
in the valley where sunflowers burn // smoke and missing father
Two American sonnets en Borinkén Themes: Family // Love // Silence // Queerness // Borinkén in the valley where sunflowers burnawake, i find wood burningin a house not too far off. palm trees bow,in prayer, but collapse. a sheet of tarlooms above the mountain’s base—so thick, it presses like molasses mixingwith scrambled eggs. a smoke-slick…
Luis E. Santos 