Daniel was born in Spain. He studied French Literature as an undergrad (French Lycée in San Sebastian). He now lives and writes in Switzerland with his wife and two children. Daniel's work is forthcoming or has been recently featured in Queen's Ferry Press anthology The Best of Small Fictions 2016, LA Review, Superstition Review, Dewpoint, and Berkeley Poetry Review. Daniel was a Pushcart nominee (2015). His chapbook 'Familya' is coming up in late 2018 thanks to BPL Press.
In the movie, the scientists wish
They’d be in uniform, and the US Marines actually
Dream of kissing the eggheads, but no one says nothing.
Always,
There’s a nuclear device with blood red numbers that
They all fathered in a Manhattan orgy—and R-Mann would say
‘It’s queer’.(More …)
A hopemonger comes he sells
hope, in Spanish
esperanza.
Abuela used to say
They were so poor in Zacatecas they
Ate ant honey—
Miel de hormiga—
Bees, hah, way too expensive, muy caro
mijo, carísimo, ja! (More …)
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
On the map, the capital city black spot
isn’t there, like a hole in a golf course for God, like
an empty plate of frijoles big enough for the nation, like
the victory of some Ulysses campesinos that dared gouge the military government’s Cyclops—