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Memoria al reves
(tra’da) try i do
to recall the sequential
phrases
de los detalles que recuerdoÉ
when being eight was
as being two,
y al tener veinte a–os,
igual-
all mere cotton pauses
along the reversed
conversation- grabada
dentro de la ilusi—n
que llevan las palabras-
(org’a de letras)
with my yellowed memory
Rug-burn underneath my eyelids
places,
and the space which i have drawn
and painted and adorned with ink-
location is the word for god-
blindness never reaches
its sense of lacking vision-
sore, stained areas
constructed of wooden tears
forever melting,
forever self-controlling
Entrapment.
ingredient substitute for
a misplaced thought (just one)-
planes, quemados and in need
of memoir redemptionÉ
this, as i impose the identity,
hovering beneath my eyelids,
scratched and scarred.
Teresa Kupin, originally from New York and Mexico, is presently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis. Additionally, she is also minoring in Feminist Studies and her areas of interest focus on dual subalternities, margins and central space, and identity deconstruction.
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