My broken language: a memoir

A multilingual block in West Philly

Spanish becomes a secret; language of the dead

English is for atheism; language of woodworking

A name that is a mask

An English cousin comes to visit

Language of the forest

Latina health vocabulary from the late 80s

Spanglish cousins on the New Jersey turnpike

Body language

Sophomore year English

Things go unsaid long enough...

Possession's voice

Sedo buys me an upright; language of Bach

Taaino petroglyphs

Lukumai thrones

Silence=death

Unwritten recipes

Yoruba vocabulary

A racial slur

A book is its presence and absence

Mom's accent

Dad buys me a typewriter

She said Norf Philly and one-two-free

Atonality

Fania everything and salsa out-of-prints

The serenity prayer

Sterling Library

The Foraker Act (on Boriken's-and the diaspora's-language history)

Gil-Scott Heron asks me a question

Writing's a muscle, it gets stronger

Broken language

On obscenity

Cold drink became a play

Silence=death (daejà vu all over again)

The book of our genius.