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Tesoro - Yesika Salgado
I.
I come from women
who fend for themselves
Nostalgia
there are two lemon trees in our garden. small dusty seeds that were planted before we moved in twenty nine years ago. every spring they grow heavy with fruit. sometimes I stand barefoot between them. my big toe nudging their children rotting on the floor. the neighbors come with bags to carry away the living. take as many as you want I say as I shut the door. I do not wonder what becomes of them. if they go on to be sweet or bitter or both. inside, I write a love note to a mango hanging on a tree I have not seen in years.
Canela
I am a brown woman who writes poetry about her brown life. I read it out loud and my accent curls the corners of my words. I am made of two languages coiled into the braid of my tongue. I belong to this country and to the one who birthed my mother. I write the coffee-stained edges of my world. the soft caramel of my grandmother. the hazelnut of my sisters. the cinnamon skin of the man I love. I am built of colors. I have named them holy and they each bring the poems to me. look at the cursive of my flesh. it is how the stories arrive. it is how they leave. with me. intact. inseparable. complete.
The Women
where do I begin?
mami?
my tías?
my grandmother?
do I follow the bruises to El Salvador?
do I dissect each fist here in Los Angeles?
I am a freight train with no conductor
all I know is the blow of my whistle
a single question:
how did you survive the men?
Polaroid
my favorite photograph of my mother / her red dress / her long curls over one shoulder / her hands / small ships taking port on her lap / the couch / a land she calls hers / she smiles without parting her lips / her night sky eyes staring into the lens
my favorite photograph of my parents / they dance together / my mother and her red dress / her hand curled around my father’s shoulder / her bare arms / a new gold / my father’s thick hair / a black cloud above them / he smiles / my mother does not / she stares into the camera again
my favorite photograph of myself / my parents sit on the sand / Santa Monica Beach / the cars in the distance catch the sun in their metal / my parents are kissing / my mother’s legs shaped into a question mark / my father’s mustache / a stroke of danger / and there / in their eyes / a twinkle / me
Terremotos
y
they lived in a tiny house
with missing windows
so it always seemed
as if their home was squinting
its front yard
a tangled mess of balding hair
rusty lawn furniture,
old bicycles and two lemon trees
the