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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

June 23, 2022

N In America, the land is a ghost of the land In America, the land is the land of the ghost In America, the land of the ghost in the land In America, the land is the ghost

In America, the ghost is the land inam er ica th e land of the [is the] [free] ghostland table { border-style: solid; border-style: law; empire’s bottom line; gross domestic product: lifespans; } border-style: a timeline moving forward; from an ancient south the line itself a manufactured record manufacturing a state; dividing those who remember from those who don’t; those who belong to the past from those who belong to the future  { border-style: manifest; “future”=forgetting (who is entitled to a destiny?) } parent-table=td nth-child { the fates = child.value (row.cells) cell value: the wolf womb; : the timewound; : the dark pines shining back eyes; : the shineback; : the wailing woman; : the strike from a man; : the scalpel of the state; : the cut flower; : the fist in the girl; : the half-moon between nations; : the first-generation border patrol; : the drawing of a cell; : the coyote’s den; : the way out; } /* Global values */ <input id=”orphans” type=”text” value=”unset”> orphans=5500|initial; orphans: inherit; orphans: revert; child-table=nested; border-style: hidden; display: table cell; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden; border-color: inherit; (every migration is the carrying of a child toward home) } border-style: family photo; mira el piojito en chanclas still screaming for his mother next to the man with the gun chyron: EXPERTS DEBATE a child’s abject terror, abstracted on loop a silence between sides sound check back to you

Vanessa Angélica Villarrealis the author of the award-winning collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters.


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