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Cassandra de Alba

Cassandra de Alba is a poet living in Massachusetts. Her chapbooks habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018) are about deer and the moon, respectively. The latest, Ugly/Sad, was released by Glass Poetry Press in 2020. She is a co-host at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge and an associate editor at Pizza Pi Press.

La Llorona Tells Me to Stop Crying

It’s Saturday night in America and the trees are full of policemen again— clinging to the upper branches, emitting little hoots and caws There are bloody handprints on the shoulders of my shirts because I am out too late pouring the river down my throat, pretending to care ...