To breathe it in, this boulevard perfume
of beauty shops and roti shacks, to take
in all its funk, calypso, reggaeton,
and soul, to watch school kids and elders go
about their days, their living, is, if not
to fall in love, at least to wonder why
some want us dead. . . .
from Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
by John Murillo, forthcoming March 2020
Fall 2019
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