Where the cut has dried over, you find red crystals in your hair; like colored sugar from a child’s cupcake, lost Valentine glitter, crushed stained glass beneath your heel in the monastery. I first saw you outlined against that window, triptych, you blotting out San Sebastian’s image all mass and shadow, an absorbent dark sponge, […]
Cristina J. Baptista
Cristina J. Baptista
Cristina J. Baptista is a first-generation Portuguese-American writer and educator whose work is forthcoming or has appeared in New Millennium Writings, Adanna, DASH, The Cortland Review, Structo, Right Hand Pointing, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Fordham University and teaches in Connecticut. In 2014, she was a 38th Voyager—one of 85 people […]