Pterodactylus

Cintia Santana

no matter why  

                                                        or if, or in what way, what

I want to say is

what we do not know 

we're quick

to fill in

(e.g. a winged-finger in

-ferred to fly

from a single feather name).

a selection, a point of view—yes and no—

and all the rest

 is left

 outside

the frame

About the Author

Cintia Santana teaches literary translation courses and poetry workshops in Spanish and in  English at Stanford University. Santana's poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016 and  2020, the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Split this Rock, as well as numerous journals. She is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo and the Djerassi  Resident Artists Program. Her debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way  Books, 2023), was short-listed for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance 2023 Golden  Poppy Award in Poetry and received the North American Book Award's Silver Medal in Poetry. 

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