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Kaya Ortiz
Afterlives, or, memory holding memory: Munira Tabassum Ahmed reviews Kaya Ortiz and Shey Marque
The first reference to water in Kaya Ortiz’s collection Past and Parallel Lives (2025) is “memory like water, fickle and evaporating” (‘Final Boarding Call’, 3). A positioning that struck me, disoriented me – foregrounding the properties of water as subsequent to something greater, vulnerable to temperature and environment, water as something shaped and controlled.
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Tagged Kaya Ortiz, Munira Tabassum Ahmed, Shey Marque
Golden Record
in memory of Lawrence Priest I. Lolo with his diamond-tipped drill, shooting sparks. A telescope large as my body waits in silence. In space diamonds are common as sand, interstellar pressure of fusion inside stars. On earth there is just …
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Self-insert Trek: Flashback
0. Self-insert as narrator: [ i cannot look you in the eye / tell the story without telling it ] i am in flight again: [ ] is a name unspoken: i am creating a home without boxes: [ ] …
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Naming Ceremony
i am named for the rain / in the old tongue / i am named for the river / on my great-grandfather’s land / i was plucked from the soil / like a seed brown and sprouting / in the …
Posted in 104: KIN
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Only Heaven
Hozier playing when we climbed into the backseat of my car parked by the oval on Gay St – your idea, we laughed and perhaps I am naive for not seeing it coming, for missing it, turning to shut the …
Posted in TMLYMI v4
Tagged Kaya Ortiz
