Silvia Bonilla

Silvia Bonilla holds an MFA from The New School. She is the author of a chapbook called "An Animal Startled by The Mechanisms of Life." (D.C, 2014). She has received fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts , Community of Writers Letras Latinas, The Frost Place, among several others.

“Facts & Wonder”

1. Saturdays in their kitchen,
my mother watering her cactus, my father
pulling out mozzarella and bread I have lost joy for.
The drowsy sadness on my father’s face whenever I didn’t want one.
Changing my mind was the gift. The day moved on sweeter.
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