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Eduardo Martinez-Leyva's poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Apogee Journal, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, The Journal, Best New Poets 2015, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Columbia University, where he was a teaching fellow. He is a CantoMundo fellow.
Sit still you told me. Give the desert
what belongs to the desert. A vessel of dust
is all you will be, dimwit. Be a dear and shape
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