“Lullaby for My Son After the Orlando Massacre” by Leslie Contreras Schwartz

A poem by alum Leslie Contreras Schwartz (poetry, ‘2011) appears in Glass: A Journal of Poetry as part of  the series “Pulsamos: LGBTQ Poets Respond to the Pulse Nightclub Shooting”:

The baby has been crying all day
and I don’t know why. Head
back, swollen face, looking

to me. Looking to me,
he cries like he can’t
see me. He cries as if pulling
from some deep well,

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