Mere feet from fire station, the Big Y thief burns
\nan old couple in their bed. Cut throats, empty wallets, then burn.<\/p>\n

Mami shoves some chicken into microwave. Twenty minutes
\non high. Papi\u2019s pollo scorches,her fingertips burn.<\/p>\n

Jahn Foundry explosion. No more skin on Pablo\u2019s fingers to touch his melting face,
\nto fling off flaming clothes. The cartilage of his ears crackles as it burns.<\/p>\n

Whenever Papi passes out on the floor, we dare each other to lift
\nhis shirt and touch the island-shaped scar, old foundry burn.<\/p>\n

When we kids don’t stop jumping on our one good bed and the little one busts
\nhis head on the heater, out comes the Vicks! Close your eyes or they’ll burn!<\/p>\n

Nine years old, Mami cooked for rich Puerto Ricans and their dogs.
\nShe was allowed to wrap table scraps and bits that smelled “ahuma’o”, burned.<\/p>\n

Teachers sometimes think we squirm too much in our seats. They only check
\nour heads for lice. Not my legs for the crisscrosses of split wires that burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mere feet from fire station, the Big Y thief burns an old couple in their bed. Cut throats, empty wallets, then burn. Mami shoves some chicken into microwave. Twenty minutes on high. Papi\u2019s pollo scorches,her fingertips burn. Jahn Foundry explosion. No more skin on Pablo\u2019s fingers to touch his melting face, to fling off flaming … Continue reading Burn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6874],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6874"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}