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Another poem

Posted on April 14, 2019 by juanzqui7

TO COMMEMORATE National Poetry Month, I am posting the second of four of my poems published in the Fall 2018 issue of “Fifth Wednesday Journal.” Impermanence We rode north each May, straight  through Texas and the prairies of Oklahoma,  Kansas, … Continue reading →

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A poem

Posted on April 13, 2019 by juanzqui7

IN HONOR OF National Poetry Month, I am posting the first of my four most recently published poems. They appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of “Fifth Wednesday Journal.” Enjoy. Or not. Al Norte It’s early spring / and I’ll … Continue reading →

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They got in the truck and drove off (recalling the day I was born)

Posted on July 7, 2017 by juanzqui7

I GOT A text message from my sister Mariana, saying she had thought about calling me to tell me about the day I was born but that she remembered that she’d already related the details to me. I responded, honestly, … Continue reading →

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The accident, and that v-shaped scar on my mother’s forehead

Posted on August 13, 2016 by juanzqui7

IN 1951, MY sister Delfina eloped and that summer went with her husband’s family to work in Ohio. “Se la robó,” we would say about our brother-in-law Pedro: he abducted her. That’s how the running away of a young couple was … Continue reading →

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