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Relief Pitcher

Flat like an envelope begging to be opened, scolding me for not making a donation or missing a sale. For the life of me, I don’t want to give it a

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Lengua

I do sit ups on a mat beneath a clock. Two guys rack weights and argue about where to find the best lengua from food trucks throughout the city, compare

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Up on the Hill

My city was being preyed upon by catalytic converter thieves, challenged by an alarming homicide rate, and an escalating homeless population. But what really bugged me is I’d just received

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Angela

Everyone I knew, knew your name, you’d left the country to study in Europe, came home to the Black Liberation Movement, your hair a corona of seeds, refusing to be dismissed.

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Brigada Venceremos

Cinder blocks framed the sunrise orange as I pushed aside the mosquito netting to greet the jade-green frog who lived beneath the toilet seat, found another stall and grabbed my

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Ben Levine at the Daily World

The elevator shivered as it climbed the three or maybe four floors to the office, I hurried to the copy editor’s desk where a balding man unwrapped a mid-morning snack,

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