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I bled. God didn’t want to hear about it. He said unclean and so it was.

I turned—a peculiar triumph—as ruin succumbed to the ruin it birthed.

I want you, you captive, delivered into each other’s territories.

What right does an American mutt like me have to depict in fiction the lives of a Salvadoran family?

From that day on, Sivaprakasam got embroiled in an ungodly mess.

The horse is beautiful and would rather be doing anything else.

Any white man without a servant was presumed to be in need of help.

When the thugs from the bank showed, up my father laughed.

We were aiming for a complete transformation of society.

A camper fighting off a grizzly until someone can shoot it dead.

It’s a small deposit, but I’m putting my faith in reincarnation.

I can only say I am here searching solo for remnants of Seoul Drive

There’s something I saw at the race meeting I can’t figure out.

I shouldn’t have to say why the confederate flag is a symbol of hate.

What if white men became supremely good at making up for our past?

We were alone in the world, and we had left dear ties behind us.

He picked up the knife I had there, and said he’d kill me if ever I told.

Phaethon thought he could drive the sun but was struck down to earth.

The sounds of Africa exploded around the white men and women.

Let those shadows sift the spirits of their children from the silt.

she was right—hurricane being the name of the feeling, the twist of it.

Don’t start conversations or attract attention. Don’t be suspicious.

I taste on my tongue a gunshot of synapses warm and light like butter

He says the word robbery and you don’t know if he’s asking or telling.

Do we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?

I made him love me. To feel abandonment—again.

Remind the children never to use the state as a metric for ethics.

The white geometry of caulk between bathroom tiles—I’m held in place.