Instead, there are shaded hollows beneath maple trees thick with fiddleheads rolled tightly. Some fiddleheads are beginning to unfold. The wood and cinnamon ferns are green like photoshopped greens. There is no war. Or blood feuds or who lived in the land when. Or who killed first or how to load bullets in guns or […]
Marlena Maduro Baraf
Marlena Maduro Baraf's stories and poems have been published in Sweet Lit, the Ekphrastic Review, On the Seawall, Night Heron Barks, Poets Reading the News, and elsewhere. She immigrated to the United States from her native Panama and is author of the memoir At the Narrow Waist of the World and co-author of Three Poets/Tres Poetas. She writes the blog, Breathing in Spanish, that features conversations with Latinos from all walks of life.