//
we run from the check at dinner
into a movie theater with modern
seats like sculptures
as the three protagonists
hold hands a fireball engulfs them
and the Earth
and we who have known the
end from the first weep
the three of us holding hands
across the seats I turn to
you and say finally a film where
a depressed woman stars
in the end of the world
what cleaves us
this mantilla of doubt that any-
thing can be without
mourning
is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso.
