María Cristina Hanging Chrysalis
       

What would I do
for a smidgeon
of your rebellion, María?
As a woman to trust
the halo of your intuition
I know you know
courage plummets
easily from cliffs of doubt
9oth imposed and self harvested—
how to make manifest
what the mind knows
but the eye cannot yet see?
How to pluck Hope
from the terraced gardens
where it grows?
I think about the nature of change
the transfiguration of grain to woman
the audacity of salt to embolden water into ocean
the urge to break free

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from Killing Marías
Two Sylvias Press
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