This month, I am pleased to feature my cousin and guest poet Lupita-Eyde Tucker. Lupita Eyde-Tucker writes and translates poetry in English and Spanish, has studied poetry at Bread Loaf, is a Fellow at The Watering Hole, and was selected as a 2018 AWP Writer to Writer Mentee. Her poems and translations have recently appeared in Baltimore Review, SWWIM, Muse/ A Journal, Nashville Review, Small Orange, Aquifer, The Acentos Review, The Florida Review, Contrapuntos VI, and Asympt
A beautifully large, rambling house
Silly children spilling out of rooms
Screaming, playing, laughing
Spending the seasons with los primos. Secrets, whispers, and giggle-fits
Dozing mostly into morning light
Malibu Barbie and VHS under the tree
Christmas pancakes as the snow flaked. Scary storms whipping in springtime
The ancient tree knocking windows
Toys bobbing from basement floods
Rubber botas stuck dry in the front lawn. Screaming laughter, endless chases
Fishi