The whole middle, a core, the break, and all of June. Summer’s worn-out deck of cards caving or giving way to a gentle rain. Finally, no one worried in the meantime. Bathing suits dried under t-shirts, under the real heat of the day. In the meantime, sour boysenberry pie cooled off next to a mouse’s […]
Cynthia Clifford
Cynthia Clifford is a Mexican-American poet from Southern California’s Inland Empire. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Linda Corrente Fellowship, and now teaches creative writing there as an adjunct assistant professor. Based in Brooklyn, her poems have appeared in Witness Magazine, Quibble Lit, and other journals. She was awarded a 2026 Poetry Society of America Summer Fellowship.