protest & at the school where few can say my children’s names correctly
should i tell her about the girl in the bombed out car /
her family dead around her /
how she called for help /
Category: Poetry
3 Poems
Te imagino amando en español /
Con fortaleza de ébano. /
Con ancestralidad en mis venas. /
Con presencia de arena infinita. /
Memoria & Smoke in Juarez
smells like stories gone /
yellow with age like dreams /
of a land where your name sits /
awkward on their tongues /
Finding Home Away & Listen
Sometimes, I go back /
Just me and nature unmuffled /
I have planted my dreams again /
The ABCs of Trying to Belong
Belonging has been a lifelong negotiation of where I am and where I want to be.
What Does a Language Taste Like? & Recolectando mis pedacitos
Childhood memories haunt me, /
Spanish-speaking little brown girl /
sitting in Ms. Jones’ first-grade classroom /
Hope Is Not a Precondition for Action & Bombs In The Water
The dust of many stars /
Has settled upon /
the revolutionary aspirations /
of our ancestors. /
Desierto de Chihuahua
The desert was my home, /
And I tried to drown the blaze, /
Filling it with water and rain and lush forests, /
La Madre y El Diablo
And how he howled and flapped his sombrero /
when she leveled her pistols /
smiling that she got him /
no sabo kid
What if all I have is my father’s tongue /
in my mother’s brown skin, /
with white teeth that /
cannot hold in these small, round beans? /
entries of an outcome o de cómo pensé que lo tenía todo pero it was just another fantasy with a white ghost
primeras despedidas, me lleno de amor for the next migration.
Impossible Mirrors & The Sea of Friendship
and I could have /
told you /
you fed me back /
my blood, opened /
my heart /
made it beat /
with your impossible mirrors /
cristobal colón (cristoforo colombo) aka christopher columbus & Visions of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
The wind tells of Juliana, /
India Juliana, a Guaraní woman /
of Asunción. You ordered her /
executed before the people. /
