“Are you recording her?” I asked.
“Yes. Yes. Look at her, she looks like a crazy person,” she replied with a laugh.
These words will never leave me and will always be my nightmare as long as I’m alive.
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“I am a Honduran woman con sangre de Lempira,
from the brown eyes to the luscious curls;
from the roll of tongues to la Punta,
Honduran blood runs through us.”
“Scrolling through the posts,
I await my sister's call, while
Mother Nature
exhales a 5 o’clock breeze.”
“In Maycomb, Alabama,
my father is a prominent lawyer defending a man whose life is on the line”
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“A wind begins to blow. It is born as a wispy breeze, and soon grows to a bolder, stronger gale. It travels across lands, picking up scents and sights and textures, and stories.”
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“I didn’t need to see his face to know it was him. Who else would have little hand-drawn cartoons I could recognize anywhere sticking out of their back pocket?”
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“The town I live in is tough. It’s the kind of town that no one visits, that might not even be on the map.”
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“The deer’s eyes are what frighten me most about it…”
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“A loud bang echoes into the forest coming from behind us…”
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“Because my family was in danger, we had to leave…”
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“The earth has a mind of its own / Speaking to us…”
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“The hunter trudges, in the dark / Across the marsh”
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“Boy is alone. He lives on an empty planet…”
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“When I was born / I had an indigo purple streak / among the crop of bright orange hair.”
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“There she stands, with tears in her eyes…”
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“We strung together the sweet scented lilac lilies with perfection…”
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“they say the beach at night is calm / and quiet.”
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“At one particular time in my life, I lived in Manhattan…”
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“A strange land of familiarity / Yet ever unpredictably changing”
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“From the corner of her eye, Anika watches the new girl navigate through the crowded cafeteria…”
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