The Reading Poet: Receta by Mario José Pagán Morales

Poetry like this will have you gritting your teeth and unwashed memories of your youth splattered on the hardened streets of NY. Mario knows this feeling intimately, as he takes his readers on a 6 line train ride through old haunts and hauntings that seem to linger from childhood.

Though he shows us raw emotions in broken phrases and left-off words, there is a central theme…