Corazón
5/5
()
About this ebook
Read more from Yesika Salgado
Hermosa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tesoro Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Corazón
Related ebooks
Tesoro Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Corazón Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gospel of Breaking Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5God Themselves Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPecking Order Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So, Stranger Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5All the Blood Involved in Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Super Sad Black Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5More Salt than Diamond: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Pull Apart the Earth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lessons on Being Tenderheaded Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Of Color: Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Citizen Illegal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doppelgangbanger Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5peluda Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5how to get over Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lineage of Rain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ante body Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Split Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Harlem Shadows: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blood Percussion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ask the Brindled Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Renunciations: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waterbaby Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to a Young Brown Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Never Catch Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Poet (Rediscovered Books): With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Weary Blues Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGilgamesh: A Verse Narrative Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Corazón
2 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Corazón - Yesika Salgado
The Hunger
Jenny and I
mangoes / the green ones / we used stones or large sticks to knock from their branches / we’d sit and eat / then and there / our small buckets in our laps / a bag of salt between us / the cows and their large soft eyes would stare / eyes like a first time lover / like a face so tender it might cry / we were children then / you and I / our grandmother Mamita was still alive / she stood at the top of the hill and yelled our names / there was a river behind us / a small quiet thing we’d wade into / when no one was watching / one time you and the boys knocked over a beehive / and ran so far up the hill it looked like you were flying / I wasn’t with you that day / I was afraid of everything / except the poems / they’ve always been here / you would leave for adventures in that country we considered wild / all that green / all those animals / I preferred my pen and paper / my bare feet on concrete / my hot coffee at 3 pm / overhearing Tia gossip with Mamita / the green mangoes in their buckets / slowly changing / like you and I / the summers I wore my adolescence like a yoke / my heart as heavy as clay / love a dangling fruit I ached to eat / and you remained a little girl / laughing into a sky we call home / but know nothing of
A Salvadoran Heart
I.
I come from women of corn and cotton fields / of machete and fire / of water and stone / I am the daughter of a river and mango tree / my tongue came to me through the jocote seed / my heart belonged to the ocean / before it found my body
II.
every man I have loved does not know my country / has not been awakened by the roosters’ crow / does not know the swell of grass and dirt beneath June thunderstorms / does not smell burning wood and think of home
III.
I learned to forgive before I learned to speak / to turn palms upward to God and my lover / to let a man ruin me with his love / to call the ruins sacred / to uproot everything and call the new place mine / to name the nostalgia something sweet / a ripened fruit growing out of a dying tree
IV.
my father died and my mother remained alone / I am and unmarried / I am asked if I want a husband / asked if I will return to my country / they are the same question / I do