Blood, unruly emotions, and intense relationships are at the heart of work by both the US author Chloe Caldwell and the Ecuadorian Gabriela Ponce.

It means to want so badly. / How close win is to want is the distance / between his fast ball & her face.

Can you see the imaginary houses? The bed post? The night stand? The trail of blood / leading back to you and me?

My mother warns me / that Grandmother has awakened / from death, / taken a shower / and put on a dress / over her naked body