The day we left one world
& found another. estavanos
todavía enredado con el otro
lado. it was since then que
nunca paramos de llamar.
nunca paramos de gritar. &
I was there through it all.
looking for todas las palabras
que perdimo en el camino.
since the day we first started
screaming. fui un machete
in your mouth. a hollow hole
adonde enteramos las memorias
of men we made metaphors
from the night before.
i`ve helped you swallow
the taste of salt y hierro.
the bitterness stemming de sacrificio.
de mujeres bellas blooming from
taste buds en tu suenos.
there are borders like oceans
spilling into each other.
no hay miedo
aqui.I float en seas of saliva.
bound to your body I lick all
of your wounds clean.
Michelle Garcia Fresco is an Afro-Latinx poet and organizer based in Boston. She is currently a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Double majoring in Creative Writing and Sociology.
Believing in the power of poetry as a medium for social justice. Garcia`s writing is often inspired by the women in her family, social and racial injustices in America, coping with loss and mental health, as well as her Dominican roots.