Flood: Years of Solitude
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Dionisio D. Martínez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1956 and now makes his home in Tampa, Florida. Although Martinez never received a formal college . . . MORE »
Dionisio D. Martínez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1956 and now makes his home in Tampa, Florida. Although Martinez never received a formal college . . . MORE »
By Dionisio D. Martinez
To the one who sets a second place at the table anyway.
To the one at the back of the empty bus.
To the ones who name each piece of stained glass projected on a white wall.
To anyone convinced that a monologue is a conversation with the past.
To the one who loses with the deck he marked.
To those who are destined to inherit the meek.
To us.
“Flood: Years of Solitude” from Bad Alchemy. Copyright © 1995 by Dionisio D. Martínez. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.