recordando (mi) agua

If he fails to drive the English away, she had threatened, “I shall not rest quiet.”

“The woman is doubly in shadow”

I am motivated...by the belief that it is only through a critique of where I come from that the act of witnessing and the testimony I offer can become a decolonizing act.

“‘Vente Azucena, no te quedes,’ and i wanting to assure her that I’m not staying with the river spirits, repeat as if chanting, “ay voy, ay voy, ay voy’ as we cross the river, going and coming.”

I swear to you all, by my mother's milk,/by the stars that shall fly from tonight's furnance,/that I loved them, my children, my wife, my home; I loved them as poets love the poetry that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea.