My work is compelled, too, by a need to broaden the potential readerships with which contemporary poetry can interact, insofar as I see poetry as a primary location for engaging predicaments of global citizenship, transnational relations, including those of Latin America and the United States, Latino~a identity, and the political emotions of sexual difference. In that process, I want to hide but only as I am seen hiding in the figure-field relationship. I wanted two sets of things: those pertaining to home and those evicted from it; truth as it is only found in its distortions, and as the cover story for other enjoyments.