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Vickie Vértiz

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Vickie Vértiz

Vickie Vértiz is the author of Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut (University of Arizona Press, 2017), winner of the PEN America Literary Prize in poetry. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

by this poet

          After the exhibition “La Gravedad de Los Asuntos 
                 (Matters of Gravity)”
The Mexicans and the Russians were always in on it 
This is collaboration in zero gravity democracy 
—blurry violet lights and no clear answer 
This is a nuclear glow in the dark so we can start over