Ren Koppel Torres
A bird in the hand will someday return with vengeance
Remember when I held your hand / at the duck pond near Dick’s Sporting Goods / and a pack of
dudes / riding a stolen motorized shopping cart / drove it into a ditch and then / chased us around
the suburbia / hollering names at us—and you insisted they were homophobes / but I’m
convinced that they worked for the / ducks who no doubt wanted revenge for / all the times I
tried to catch them as a five-year-old.
dudes / riding a stolen motorized shopping cart / drove it into a ditch and then / chased us around
the suburbia / hollering names at us—and you insisted they were homophobes / but I’m
convinced that they worked for the / ducks who no doubt wanted revenge for / all the times I
tried to catch them as a five-year-old.
Ren Koppel Torres is a Jewish Chicano teen and the editor-in-chief of Alebrijes Review, a literary magazine dedicated to whimsical, colorful, monstrous art by and for Latinos. Ren serves as the Managing Editor of INKSOUNDS and as a Community Events Organizer for the winnow. His work is published/forthcoming in diode, TIMBER Journal, Lumiere Review, Apogee, and elsewhere. He is currently writing a soup-themed chapbook of poetry.