Miami
Houses painted like the inside of fruit.
Mango, guava,
papaya with beady eyes.
Houses with roofs like ski hats.
Casas in flaming hues.
Casa with lawns like sloppy husbands
or gated and manicured,
Lesley Valdes
Lesley Valdes lives in Philadelphia with her good dog Ben. A graduate of
Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers and the Peabody Conservatory of
Music, her music reviews have appeared in national pub