Denise Chavez looks up from the lamp-lit podium. Religious candles flicker on a table behind her.
She raises her hand as she reads
She sighs deeply
She holds up her arm and flips back her hand
She shakes her head
She bends her fingers like claws and clutches the air
She raises her hands, her fingers bent
She waves her bent fingers
She brings her hand to her forehead
She puckers her lips and twists them as she jerks her head
She brings her hand to her hair
She studies the page then looks up and frowns
She winds her hand next to her head
She shakes her head
She looks up quickly
She squats slightly, swaggering her hips, then leans forward and raises her chin
She wags her finger
Her brow wrinkles
She leans back and tilts her head slightly
She looks around and raises her eyebrows
She raises her arm and taps the air with her index finger
She wrinkles her nose
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She looks up.