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Rinconcito is a special “little corner” in Somos en escrito for short writings: a single poem, a short story, a memoir, flash fiction, and the like.Two poems By Oswaldo Vargas Why We Meet in the Milpa Because it’s the closest thing to a chinampa Where I can practice my slang familiar to any sidewalk in Michoacán Where language brushes its chin against me What’s the word for razor burn and my want for it to happen again? Where the crew of comas gather to coordinate a trip to the beach Where I can ask what’s the word for the direction in which my parents’ ashes will blow Where I wait for the next thing to call a season the thing you stick your tongue out in the lluvia for. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Where the Fishermen Love I’m afraid of the day you’ll swim miles out into the ocean and won’t come back The doctor says your blood is too sweet but there’s no barista to take the drink back to No Apa please blast the songs I used to get embarrassed by Teach me how to swim so one day I too can join you out where only fishermen love.  Oswaldo Vargas lives in Davis, California, where he attends the University of California, Davis, working towards a Bachelor’s Degree in History while also studying Human Rights and Jewish Studies. Previous publications include the Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands anthology, Assaracus’s If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration anthology, Raspa Magazine, Nepantla: Queer Poets of Color anthology, and Huizache.
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