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.

Issue 56, December 2021

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.

Issue 56, December 2021

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