My Man by Esperanza Cintrón. Number 7 in our A.V. Christie Series, selected by series editor Sandy Yannone.

[ cover art by Larry Green ]

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Publication:  March 23, 2026 [100 copies]
29 pages
ISBN 978-1-960693-35-8
$ 12.00

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Esperanza Cintrón is also the author of Shades, Detroit Love Stories. Published by Wayne State University Press, it was a 2020 Michigan Notable Book. She has four books of poetry, including the Naomi Long Madgett Award winner What Keeps Me Sane (2013) and Boulders, Detroit Nature Poems published by Chestnut Review (2023). Her work appears in many collections including Manteca! An Anthology of AfroLatin@ Poets. She earned Callaloo Writing Fellowships at Brown and Oxford Universities and a doctorate in English literature from SUNY Albany.

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All That’s Left of a Man

Speeding down Cass Ave over sinkholes and half
patched craters past dead diners boarded buildings
infested apartments dying party stores and vacant lots
past an empty grey tweed scarf houndstooth jacket and
apple cap stretched out in a sopping puddle on a sidewalk
past a red wigged middle of the street woman waving
down a stunted hatchback past muddy yellow weed
choked vacant lots that host oil drum fires where bundled
up folks warm themselves and share a bottle past a church
dinner line of women clutching tiny blue hands while
shouting greetings up ahead as their fog white breaths
hover keeping time and space past old young men hurtling
forward, heads bowed, shoulders twisted against the wind

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