Recenter Press
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  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews

As it happens,

BY TANO RUBIO.


               a series of likes is
choice management the algorithm 

               working 24/7

               targeting me for ads that pretend to care for
my preferences which I didn’t know were preferences 

               until I saw them scroll by     

               standing in line with a whole generation 
that searches for themselves amidst aisles 

               never finding a way out 

               my every move time stamped & I am 
munching on data trends nacho flavored or is it cool 

               ranch aligning me more so that I am 

               subscribing every day and I never 
eat a whole meal any more it’s all about the macro & micro 

               nutrients what goes in gotta come out 

               & how did I end up 
in the freezer section contemplating 

               ​a Lean Cuisine?

Other White

BY TANO RUBIO.


               In bed on Saturday morning, 
sun peeped through blind cracks 


               at first thin lines stretched over one’s bed, 
now covering whole walls ahead        


               my mother burned the edges of quilts to keep 
ends of fabric fused, to strengthen our generational 
circadians under age-old rags, to avoid pulling loose 
fibers unfurling, to sustain this patterned


               color        Other--

                             warmth, 
defined by its escaping shadow, 
with abundant language, rising
indiscriminate, passes over 

               as we lie

tano rubio is a writer, performer, and teacher from East Tennessee. You can find tano rubio on Instagram, @tanorubio_.
  • About
  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews