Anacaona Rocio Milagro was born and raised in Washington Heights, New York City. Her father is from the Dominican Republic and her mother is from St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. She is a divisional administrator at Columbia University Medical Center in New York and lives in Washington Heights with her two children.

The Night I Watched My Twelve-Year-Old Brother Get Cuffed & Taken from Our Home, Tearing Up, Saying: “I Didn’t Do It!”

by Anacaona Rocio Milagro
(part 1)

Birds living in a quiet corner of earth
must have burst open
midflight
staining the glass of sunset

without witness


(part 2)
People on couch
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