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Pareces Blanca

pareces blanca he tells me  
 
bachata filling every corner  
 
of his cab I sing along  
 
           accentless  
 
remember the first time I heard  
 
those words in my father’s car  
 
ay, cuando te miro y no me miras   
 
he insists pareces blanca  
 
my mother’s güera I say rubia
 
her parents named her  
 
Barbie como la muñeca  
 
I give him names of towns I visit  
 
every summer and Christmas  
 
but he’s hesitant turns up the music
Picture
Chris Wright. Cloud Study No. 8, 2011. Oil on paper, 7 x 9 1/4 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Eloisa Amezcua is an Arizona native. Her poetry and translations are published or forthcoming from Poetry Magazine, TYPO, Cherry Tree, and others. She is the author of the chapbooks On Not Screaming (Horse Less Press) and Symptoms of Teething, winner of the 2016 Vella Chapbook Prize from Paper Nautilus Press. Eloisa is the founder/editor of The Shallow Ends: A Journal of Poetry. You can find her at www.eloisaamezcua.com.
Chris Wright received his BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and his MFA from Pratt Institute. He has taught painting at Pratt since 1999. Wright has taught with the Pratt in Venice Summer Program, Montserrat College of Art, the New York Academy of Art, among others. He is a 2015 fellow in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Affordable Art Fair, New York; Cal State Fullerton; and UMass Amherst. His work has appeared in New York Spaces Magazine, New American Paintings, and American Art Collector. 
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