I was barely twelve years old when Baba fell ill. We had been in Rameh for about a year with asbestos sheets and corrugated metal replacing our stone home in Farradiyya.

I called her Vivi after my favorite Final Fantasy character. She thought it was because of the El Río Viví that ran through her hometown of Utuado. Out of nerd shame, I never told her the truth.

No surprise there. Bocasucia means dirty mouth in Spanish. He got his nickname because he loves going down on girls.

Kennedy had finally started to feel like the two of them had made a home of their own, to believe it might all work out. Then, the letter from the County had come.

Griffiths is widely known for her literary portraits, fine art photography, and lyric videos. Her extensive video project, P.O.P (Poets on Poetry), an intimate series of micro-interviews, gathers nearly 100 contemporary poets in conversation, and is featured online by the Academy of American Poets.

When you killed yourself, everything stopped and kept going, and that mixture of inertia and constant motion sent me reeling.