{"id":2249,"date":"2024-07-23T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:05:48","slug":"two-by-monique-quintana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"Two by Monique Quintana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nicknames for Dinosaurs<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>She had a sancho in Michoac\u00e1n. He gave me my faulty spine in the dusk. I had to get two injections in my spine. Nurse, what kept you? I hate the word hairdo over style. How can dead things do anything? There&#8217;s a place in the sun where I eat old birthday cake. You know the best way to get there. Our mothers were enemies\u2014Polka dots at funerals. Macaws fall in love with other planets. I can&#8217;t keep their trees from dying. I forgot what tree my lover lives in. He forgot to paint a door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Pi\u00f1ata<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My best lover busted a honeydew melon over my kneecap because I said I didn&#8217;t like his razor-faded haircut. I preferred his hair to fall over his eyes so I could play peek-a-boo with him through Venetian blinds and cold sequins. Instead of the melon hurting, its juice made pantyhose that I could shimmy all night in. The overnight news carried headlines about our doomed affair, and the ink stains made glow holes in my palms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Monique&nbsp;Quintana is a Xicana from Fresno, CA, and is the author of Cenote City (<\/em>Clash Books, 2019<em>) and the chapbook, My Favorite Sancho and Other Fairy Tales (<\/em>Sword and Kettle Press, 2021<em>). Her work has been supported by<\/em> Yaddo, Amplify, The Sundress Academy for the Arts, The Community of Writers, <em>and <\/em>The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. <em>You can find her at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/moniquequintana.com\/\">moniquequintana.com<\/a>&nbsp;and @quintanagothic&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nicknames for Dinosaurs She had a sancho in Michoac\u00e1n. He gave me my faulty spine in the dusk. I had to get two injections in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2249\" title=\"Two by Monique Quintana\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}