“¿Qué monstruo vive en mí que me hace parir palabras?”
-Norge Espinosa

(Cintas de seda, Matanzas, 42)

SCARS

The sky
has been scarred.

Old marks
decaying on the skin,

putrid…
dead..

white skin
which once was red,

three scars,
no tears
mumbles or cries.

Three scars
against a blue sky,

three marks
withholding time…

The scar has been scarred
telling a story beneath the marks.