Ghost of Buenos Aires

Ghost of Buenos Aires

Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons I am trying to be a flyon the wall of this city —attracted to light but stayingin shadow. I speakwhen I need to, in Spanish,speak Spanish and sayI’ve only spoken spanishtoday. I read Nerudaon the bus and...
The Divine Twins

The Divine Twins

Photo by Alienlanus – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0  Once upon a time, the two cities could have been twins separated by little more than a body of water larger than a river but smaller than a sea. The muddy depths could be easily forgotten in the golden shimmer of the...