efucke
By Eggie
the letter e adorned English words like Mima’s dangly earrings la letra e abrazaba las palabras de mis abuelos y tíos it was the appetizer of a sentence, solo para picar, there was doubt in “umm” but smiles con “e–” smiles like a wedge of lime, fresh and bursting wide— there was fuerza in fuck, like fear, like a fall, like a bad grade, but a curse was subdued to a tease when bookended with e’s “fuck” sandwiched between two Fibonacci spirals, the letter e like the turns of a wooden spoon, a swirl of dulce de leche, o merenguitos con café— y entre e, me quedaré
As a proud Miami Cuban, Eggie enjoys writing about her intersectional experience as “una cubanita” in America. Her work has appeared in The New Croton Review (Fall 2023 issue) and e-magazine The Maroon in 2018. Her poem “Self-Portrait of a Cuban American Woman” received the 2020 Dawson Gaillard Award in Poetry at Loyola University New Orleans. Eggie is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in TESOL/Applied Linguistics at The University of Alabama.
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