Manuel Sánchez. Our Demand

We wore our demand jauntily cocked across our skull. The demand we wore to the point of abasement was a nun’s wimple.

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preventing the sleepless from wandering

Manuel Sánchez. My Pregnant Wife Sleeps in a Boardinghouse Hallway
Lis Sanchez

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Manuel Sánchez. My Pregnant Wife Sleeps in a Boardinghouse Hallway

Do I hear you, flitting dream, shaking your feathers? I am sitting perfectly still, preventing the sleepless from wandering        over your fluttering feet. Do I hear you, green dream, rustling your feathers? Or is it the wings of geese lifting from a field of cut cane,        freighted with…

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Before there was a bronze Cristóbal Colón there was Cristóbal Colón

Manuel Sánchez. Lavish
Lis Sanchez

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Manuel Sánchez. Lavish

Before there were cavalry horses sheening the street with golden turds, there were strains of a treble wafting out of the whitewashed café, perturbing the flamboyán’s red petals. Before there was a bronze Cristóbal Colón there was Cristóbal Colón manicuring his nails.

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