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Aguadilla, PR Paige Quiñones (bio) August 2015 Only men sit at the fountain, eyeingmy sister’s legs & my exposed neckfrom across the square.Women on the doorstep of the ferreteríaask for money, spit gringas at our backswhen we clench our teeth & do not comply.A shaded couple trades a stampof heroin for money—an exchange, palmagainst palm, that ends as quickly as it begins:a shy kiss, an oar dipping into water.There are no children here.We were children here once.We still photograph the ocean sunsetand pocket the brightest intact shells,as if this is the place we remember. Streets are now lined with empty homes; every ceiling, caved & rotting, is webbed with nests & vines. The sea will make her way inside. [End Page 124] Paige Quiñones Paige Quiñones is the author of The Best Prey, which won the 2020 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for poetry. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Muzzle Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Crazyhorse, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She is a PhD student in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston. Copyright © 2021 Pleiades Press
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