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Today, Doric Literary publishes, “San Luis,” by @melissacuisine.bsky.social, which combines fiction, travelogue, and time travel. It was inspired by a song and will take you to many Saint Louises: across borders, generations, and planets. #Cli-fi #GoogleMaps doric-literary.com/2026/10/01/s...

San Luis

Someday someone will ask me if my grandparents were illegals, and I won’t honestly know because his family migrated at a time when borders didn’t mean what they mean now.

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I still can’t quite believe I have a poem in this magical issue of Alaska Quarterly Review behind this gorgeous cover photograph. Many thanks to Ronald Spatz for including my work in these pages. (Photo taken beneath the magnolia tree where I wrote “a sudden chorus”.)

Image a hand holding the Summer & Fall 2026 issue of AQR Alaska Quarterly Review beneath a magnolia tree with a photograph close-up of plants and succulents and blueberriesImage of the Table of Contents of the AQR Alaska Quarterly Review Summer and Fall 2026 issueJill Kitchen
a sudden chorus
magnolia leaf like a shield like a dress you could make into armor into a crown to keep off the unwanted advances of ice storm
fiber thick enough to eat to line your gut to make a home a shelter even a width of blanket woven with the flex & bend
of honeysuckle vine the kind that sings virginia sweet not the red spears you planted in colorado that waited
until you were leaving to bloom to salute the sad curl of avocado grown from seed during early days of pandemic
suddenly surprised to find itself in high altitude & winter after being born into fruit in mexico does the cherry tree
remember how you held her caressed the soil at her edges wondered over her white summons of flowering her june of cherries