Ceviche
A piece of meat tells the story/
of inlets and archipelagos,/
where a couple of fins/
have propelled shiny scaled skin/
from the secrets of the depths/
into your mouth.
Shameless people
We poets are shameless people. We try to give whoever reads our poems something that they simply cannot shake. – James Dickey
The Relativity of Discomfort
By Shakira Andrea Sison I was at the end of a three-person turnstile line when I heard the sharp sucking of teeth and multiple grunts
For Fourth
You disappeared one day./
You took your brilliant words/
and perfectly timed guitar taps/
and the ends of my sentences away./
On Abandoned Shoes
By Shakira Sison I’ve seen them often enough on sidewalks, subway platforms and parkbenches, or even hanging from trees. I’ve always wondered what theirstories were
On Becoming American
By Shakira Andrea Sison I learned early on that I could never be American. I knew I could never tell the story of having