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Ríos Are for Chivos and Eternity
These poems return obsessively to acts of cutting, washing, cooking, naming, and burying: rituals through which bodies are disciplined, preserved, erased, or remembered. The river functions simultaneously as geographic site (the Dajabón/Massacre River; the Caribbean; the Mediterranean; the Rio Grande), historical archive, and metaphorical grammar. The goat appears as food, sacrifice, rumor, masculinity, dictator, and witness, binding intimacy to political terror.
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