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"After Julia Alvarez."

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I have something to say.

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But the world pointed
otherwise, dark skinned palabras

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hung at the bar.

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Solely tierra danced.

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Mi nombre just kept trying
to warm up to the sun.

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Don't confuse me with
wit, la declamation de

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los sueños declared or
the great forgetting,

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bottled up and shaken.

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Aposento, morivivi,
Las Mañanitas

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summoned to the tide of island
water, a closed harbor warming.

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Words opened up,
forced the hinge

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of shell, the fragile genie,
my blue eyed muse, el patio

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where the world goes dizzy.

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I sing in Spanish, too awkward
to move with el cielo's lead.

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Un rosaria, a chain
of silver commands.

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I am a country girl.

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Numbers escape me
to the morning.

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I open my cradle and
display my array,

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the snowy mist of intimacy,
an ache on the tongue.

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My heart waits on
a horizon blown

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and early a corner of too many
leaves and arrivals, gamma,

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flor, color.

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Lo que hace back when
the force beats back.

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A mile-an-hour look looks back.

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A vocabulary of dust and blade.

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Some things don't translate
what this kid could never say.

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