CLOSE WINDOW
 

 

 

 

 from Love in the Time of NAFTA

Driving north on the Periférico, a man looks up at a billboard and wonders about the name of the color used to paint a rouge on Brad Pitt’s lips (Vermeil). He does not, however, notice his wife has not spoken to him for three hours.

The books she reads are getting longer. She has lost her faith in bottled water.

The coins she presses into his palm are worth exactly half of what they were yesterday.

 


True to Scale

by Susan Briante

(2001)

  

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