Christina Vega-Westhoff

Christina Vega-Westhoff is a poet, translator, dancer, choreographer, and educator living in Buffalo, NY. Author of Suelo Tide Cement (Nightboat, 2018), her writing has appeared recently in Rabbit, Faro, The Capilano Review, and Vestiges.

Recycled template fail

o sea resonate into

resolute fostered stance

fallopian columns 

hailstorm hat tracking

eye trace miniscule sleeve

essence erase yr yard

age every official register

deep hole deep space 

anthropocarcenogenic explosive

debris wrist hurdle

way of walking with or  

force cut to it from the under

standing of two paths in

parallel o grams age(nt)

detonated agreement from

one govt nation hand pulled

fast then behind the head 

psych siphon soliloquy sill

oy still fill water held in 

everyone expects a kind of

braiding but that is a misunder

standing for some it will be 

the only option viable or

perceptable versatile isle of de

por alguna razón no se escucha

no soy de aquí ni de allá 

un poco de correction

under the table variety pluscuam

perfecto directive who are we teaching

or interested in teaching who

are we being with or else 

sometimes to hear be near

the care of time puff of a hot

snow in air or o quantifiable

blessing blasphemy blurted 

we stayed in the town hall then

In create mode vanishing impulse 

prepare as in bunker into

if this is fathomable then what is not

list of words we deem essential

resonant part of any entrance

to this decade part of listening to need to care to 

anything other than white wealth

accumulation disinterred 

almanac questions of leg 

it leg

end way of a long bowing quest

ion

make due

l due

deu meu 

face of a clown falling inward

on the joke

where is ma

ma 

slippy feet

pit

tering interring pit

if full 

scriptonomics

optics

maqui 

na je m’apelle

grant app

lic ation

lactation

my hallway

pause breath tone

your birth

uni

later

ally ut(t)er

ly uter

us

terra

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