A proposito di Ismael S Rodriguez Jr
creating poetry, short stories, and art
I’m a Puerto Rican/Filipino poet from Philadelphia and a U.S. Navy veteran who served from 1987 to 1991. Living with a mental health diagnosis, I draw strength from both lived experience and a deep, evolving spiritual practice. A spiritual rebel at heart, I fuse tradition with intuition in both my creative work and personal journey. I'm also a committed activist, advocating for the rights, dignity, and visibility of people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, and other marginalized voices.
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I found God nailed beneath the tracks, His gospel stained with coal and rain. The preacher said the country was blessed. The railroad ghosts asked, Blessed for whom? A rusted spike held Genesis down beneath a depot eaten by kudzu, where the ticket window sold only silence and the clock had stopped at the hour the factory closed. I pulled the iron from the pages. The earth coughed up a century. The...
The Gospel of the Rusted Railroad Spike
Oct 12, 2026
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