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Author: Octavio Quintanilla
Location: Rio Grande Valley, Texas
 Octavio Quintanilla's poetry has recently appeared in Cranky, BorderSenses, Main Channel Voices, and other print journals. It is forthcoming in Freshwater, HeartLodge, and will be anthologized in Heal (Clique Calm Books). His work can also be found online at Lily, Banyan Review, and Dicey Brown. It is forthcoming in The Rose & Thorn. He has finished a novel tentatively titled This Is The Life and will soon begin looking for a publisher.
Suddenly
you lifted
the world
off your
shoulders
and found
new territory
to explore
suffering
stepped into
a new place
where cunning
is no longer
necessary
inside yourself
is where we
always find
each other.
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