Carlos A. DeJuana, from Volume 4:2

Carlos A. DeJuana is a husband, father, native Texan and long-time resident of Washington, DC, where he works for the State Department. He had a prior career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, with stints in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. He has written poetry on and off since high school, and had some of his previous work published in the Rice University student literary magazine University Blue and in riverSedge, a literary journal published by University of Texas-Pan American.

DeJuana has two poems—"Fleeting Everlasting" and "The Fall"—running in the latest volume of Synesthesia. Below is an excerpt from the former:

Gently
I lift my daughter from her seat,
careful not to wake her
from the battle she fought
so valiantly against
the eventuality of sleep.

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"Sleeping Child" (1990) by Nick Payne

Find the rest of this poem, plus DeJuana's "The Fall," on pages 24 and 25 of Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 4:2!