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“I grind my teeth. / I bite my nails. / As of this morning / I’ve accrued / thirteen hundred / american weeks.”
Ricardo Hernandez is the son of Mexican immigrants. A recipient of fellowships from Lambda Literary, Poets House, and the Vermont Studio Center, his poems have appeared in Witness, Hyperallergic, The Offing, and other publications. He holds an MFA from Rutgers-Newark and lives in Jersey City.
“I grind my teeth. / I bite my nails. / As of this morning / I’ve accrued / thirteen hundred / american weeks.”