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October Cheritas

  • Can We Please Be Done?

    A Cherita, October The election calendar’s tires drag, marking time through twelve more days. Once a gleaming Cadillac,now a dilapidated relic, barely holding together. Collapsed on a lot, the salesman praising its glory days,while the buyer eyes a sleek, nearly new Lincoln SUV, wondering why anyone would want to buy the past. Read more

  • Shifting Sidewalks

    An October Cherita She watches her steps, flagstones worn and layered by generations of shoes like hers. Behind the houses, where neighbors share gardens and stone-built burners, and kids burn their buttons on old metal slides — there is something — it feels safe, but shadows stretch long—too quiet if she stays too long. Her Read more

  • Second Best

    A Cherita for October They left me to repaint my room, wishing I were a boy.    Mom and Dad’s silent sighs always a specific disappointment lingering.  A daughter is never enough when they wanted a boy. Second best in their eyes.  They dreamt of games played on a field, doting love forever more.While I Read more