casa y cuarto

  La casa Pucheta. Wooden, cluttered table.

  White creamy cheese with thick slabs

  of shaved jelly. Crackers, dulce de leche

  covering. Small black and white dog

  at our knees, in our laps. Bookshelves

  leaning into conversations. Sharp tang

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  of nail polish, thin layers stacking up

  like books on the couch-turned bed.

  Bowl of fruit, bananas and manzanas

  and mandarinas. Plastic table cloth,

  rose patterns intertwining. Tuppers

  in steel belly sink. Pizza slices during

  noche de hogar, pale crust like

  white missionary fingers. Pinpoints

  of green olives in homemade sauce.

  Cards, balls, rubix cube. Photos and braids.

  Timbres and viandas, take home dinners.

  Noodles boiling on low, murmuring like

  love. Christmas tree candle, knitted slippers,

  snow globe and delicate animal figurine. Home.