Over the Sink

Careful: There are sharks in the water, the mother says, leaving her daughter wide-eyed, trying to fathom the danger in the knife fallen from her mother’s hands.





José Angel Araguz is a CantoMundo fellow and the author of six chapbooks as well as the collection Everything We Think We Hear (Floricanto Press). His poems, prose, and reviews have appeared in RHINO Poetry, New South, and The Volta Blog. A current PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati, he runs the poetry blog The Friday Influence. A second collection, Small Fires, is forthcoming from FutureCycle Press.https://thefridayinfluence.wordpress.com/

More from him in 5.1 here and here