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Es normal​

by L.R. Buckwalter Cunningham
What is the use of Speculation
if you are still,
              full of sorrow
and Vampires.
metaphysically transfixed,
              in this garage at night
chirping in
a language,
our own, our young,
an obscure species;
              for me you have died, and I do not know yet,
in my lowly reason,
a theory as to
              Why.

L.R. Buckwalter Cunningham is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the Defense Foreign Language Institute, where she teaches linguistics, language, and culture. LRBC is a creative writer, poet, reviewer, copy-editor, translator, and yinzer. She is currently working on a book-length project on autopoiesis and Latinx poetry, and a translation manuscript of collected essays and correspondences. She resides in Salinas, California next to a broccoli field.