Esteban Rodriguez

Esteban Rodríguez is the author of the collections Dusk & Dusk (Hub City Press, 2019), Crash Course (Saddle Road Press, 2019), In Bloom (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2020), and (Dis)placement (Skull + Wind Press, 2020). His poetry appears in the Gettysburg Review, the New England Review, TriQuarterly, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. He is the interviews editor for the EcoTheo Review, an assistant poetry editor for AGNI,, and a regular reviews contributor for [PANK] and Heavy Feather Review. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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Temptation

Esteban Rodriguez  | 
Issue 69.1 Fall 2020

First he lets it dangle, swings it by its tail. Then, when the snake rises, hisses and slithers like fog between the rocks, Lalo lifts the lid, lets the mouse drop, and waits for “nature to take its course.” And I think of Eve, temptation, I think of cousins, like Lalo, whose lives are centered […]