The officer at the gate closely examines the passport. He raises his eyes up at the young man and wonders if this visitor has vengeance is in the family tree. His eyes return to the passport in his hands. “Will you be going to Palestine?”

Three photos, three wishes, three attempts.

Rewrites are fucking annoying. After a few weeks of character replacements that did not work, I drop into Barbershop Brooklyn Shop and have a run in with a Black Brit. It ignited an epiphany to a whole other gaijin experience in Japan. One that is unique and close to the African American experience. And one that relates to the Dominican story as many Black Brits came from the Caribbean and South America.

God shows itself in the faces of mankind.

Latinos in the Present Moment – Single Category by Free Rodriguez. Submission Review.

Arm wrestling the hand of fate.

Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Where I’m from? Where I am at? That empty feeling in your chest is where I from. The light that shines on the moon is where I am at.

Julian.

He lived the fullest of lives.

Hoy en dia, I don’t take too many photos.

Israel means the Face of God or Facing God. The ladder has been my experience as I have wrestled with my faith and belief since I could remember.

“Yes! Of course you look like a drug dealer. No one ever seen you here. The tourists are in town and in the hotels. So a chico like you walking around with some high end equipment and sunglasses is super suspect. Plus, your accent!”

She said she needed to see this and naturally I had to see it with her. Puente Morandi collapsed on August 14, 2018. We visited this place 6 months after the fall. The neighborhood was a ghost town. People were evacuated from their homes and the area was blocked off. It looked like the next fall of Rome.

“I love you,” she read. Era una tableta clavada a la columna enfrentándome. Cuando lo vi, era como no lo leí. Esas palabras, los entendí como si ella me lo leyera.

A latino haiku.

Snot nosed with heavy breaths, I hung on the side of the boat and meditated on what just happened. A year ago, I began a quest with expectations on how it would change my life. I could not swim. Yet the journey, the challenge of learning how to swim put me on a path I could not have imagined. 

The match begins and the birds circle each other and hiss. Their movement is like something…something out of Jurassic Park. And further convinces you that today’s Kentucky Fried Chicken was once Earth’s apex predator. Then suddenly like two undisciplined fighters swinging for the fences, the two roosters start clawing at each other.

Ella podría haber sido realeza, Evita, una leyenda en las artes, Marilyn, y un ícono argentino para siempre. 

El pensamiento Shipibo es metafórico, analógico y establece un vinculo estrecho con sus vestimentas tradicionales que reflejan directamente la forma de ser de su cultura. Presentando Elena de los Shipibo.