Verse
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The Andes mountains are etched in my bones the carvings tingled as I walked among them. They sang an ancestral song and my heart knew her words. When I laid on the grass in Machu Picchu listening to the ground it whispered revealing my past life. the majestic silhouette embedded whenever my eyelids close.
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To my fellow teachers Reading rosters with names that don’t roll off the tongue the names that require extra thought extra effort and the respect to be pronounced correctly there’s always an Appreciation for the attempts And there’s always a story mine is of a soap opera a Gypsy in love with a naval officer…
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Write me lines like Neruda Write about an invincible love that all of nature knows, how it conspires to help us blossom Write your lines on my body Do to me what spring does with the cherry trees my bones will store our secrets Write 100 sonnets inspired by our mornings afternoons nights Write odes…
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Surfing the crimson waves Seeing bright red Purple red clots And brown Between my panties Periods are full Of irony My belly bloats As if I’m 3 months pregnant except I’m not My breasts swell Like they have milk But they don’t Sneezing Unleashes Niagara Falls Blood clots Like thick Jello Except the gross kind…
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The warmth of your furry little body the sweetest of sensations Freed from your cage Reborn as my lady Liberty Velvet black coat like a tuxedo with a white patch you meow hello you meow wake up meow meow meow feed me the best alarm clock snuggling me at a quarter to five sleeping at…
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Protesting is American after feeling betrayed and afraid Comforted by messages from the picket lines. The people united will never be defeated Muslim lives matter Black lives matter Trans lives matter Crowds of marginalized and majority because white silence equals violence. No to sexism homophobia Islamophobia Racism Xenophobia Arms in arms Building this country this…
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Reality is richer than fiction I found the dress I was raped in and didn’t know what to do with it. I haven’t for years You know the dress too, Marilyn Monroe’s iconic white dress cooling herself over a subway grate. It happened on a Halloween I was her he was pimp reality, richer than…
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I wish I could be seen inside out Maybe it’d be easier to see the complexities you would see how much I’m covered in cobwebs commonly known as anxiety. I have scars inside and out You’d see jagged wounds that never properly healed. The outside is scarred by neurosis, I compulsively pick at anything that…
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I love you and I hope I showed or spoke those words to you every day. I’m 27 borderline 28 and you’re nowhere on the horizon Right now I’ve been working making the world a little better before you arrive I know I’ll have called you a leader more than princess You will play more…
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You are not a victim but a survivor. Victims are paralyzed survivors find strength in the pain You did not ask for this but now you’re shining, a lighthouse to those who did not get their day in court. Using your voice to testify against injustice of class and privilege not going quietly into the…
Yesenia Guerra 