Aleida Rodríguez is a poet (Garden of Exile), essayist, editor, and seminal publisher of Los Angeles–based literary magazine rara avis and Books of a Feather. She is the recipient most recently of a COLA (City of LA) Literature Fellowship for 2018–19. “Time Machine” is forthcoming in What Falls Away Is Always: Writers over 60 on Death (What Books Press), as well as in her essay collection, “Desire Lines,” currently seeking a publisher.