Anguilla

Samantha Vargas

(NJ)

Turn on the eel documentary
for the second time
think of your dead grandmother
She could have been an eel, you know
great, slinking goddess
in her black mink coat
spirit guide in the water
drinking martinis

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Samantha Vargas

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Samantha Vargas is a queer poet and educator who lives in New Jersey. Her work has been featured in Carolina Muse, The Night Heron Barks, Ruby, Inside Voice, The Knight's Library Magazine, and The Imaginate. She was a semi-finalist for the 2024 Sundress Chapbook Contest, and her work was nominated for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net anthology in 2023 for prose and poetry.