New Identity
Swallow
Simone de Andrade Neves was born in 1974 in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she lives and practices law. She spent her childhood and adolescence in the small town of Dionisio, in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais. She has published three books of poetry: O coração como engrenagem (1994); Corpos em Marcha (2015, Editora Scriptum); and Dor Andorinha (2015, Edições Leve1livro).
Dean Thomas Ellis is a writer and translator living in New Orleans. His work has appeared in Bloodroot, Cosmonauts Avenue, Guernica, The New Orleans Review, The Puritan, Maple Leaf Rag, The Iron Lattice, Working Stiff (PBS.org), St. Petersburg Review, and the KGB Bar Lit Magazine. His translation (with Jaime Braz) of Jacinto Lucas Pires' novel The True Actor was published by Dzanc Books in November 2013. He hosts the radio programs Tudo Bem and The Dean's List on WWOZ-FM 90.7 (wwoz.org) in New Orleans.
Dean Thomas Ellis is a writer and translator living in New Orleans. His work has appeared in Bloodroot, Cosmonauts Avenue, Guernica, The New Orleans Review, The Puritan, Maple Leaf Rag, The Iron Lattice, Working Stiff (PBS.org), St. Petersburg Review, and the KGB Bar Lit Magazine. His translation (with Jaime Braz) of Jacinto Lucas Pires' novel The True Actor was published by Dzanc Books in November 2013. He hosts the radio programs Tudo Bem and The Dean's List on WWOZ-FM 90.7 (wwoz.org) in New Orleans.
New Identity
I am armless now Against a backdrop of stricken lives I name: Father, Mother, Brother I plunge my feet into this pit of tears Taste my essence in the purple earth.
Swallow
Mock-up of sky White and blue in a shrouded scheme: Bird on the wire Heedless of the shock.
