Category: Poetry
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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 / Read more
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4 poems
Con todo aquí,/ pero sin todo ahí, / sabiendo vivir entre aquí y ahí, / …yo. / Read more
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3 Poems
Te imagino amando en español / Con fortaleza de ébano. / Con ancestralidad en mis venas. / Con presencia de arena infinita. / Read more
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Memoria & Smoke in Juarez
smells like stories gone / yellow with age like dreams / of a land where your name sits / awkward on their tongues / Read more
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Finding Home Away & Listen
Sometimes, I go back / Just me and nature unmuffled / I have planted my dreams again / Read more
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The ABCs of Trying to Belong
Belonging has been a lifelong negotiation of where I am and where I want to be. Read more
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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 / Read more
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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. / Read more
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Her Keeper & Chicharra
I carry her trauma, / yes, it’s a crushing / weight as I run / Read more
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Untitled
Their eyes tell me / I am a migrante. / Read more