“‘Día a día te volviste
la pobre piedra quedada
la pobre piedra que duerme
y dura y odia la llama
y eres, ya, todos tus muertos antes de ser sepultada.’†”

2025

cotton, sheep’s wool, borrowed earth, cempohualxochitl seeds

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† Gabriela Mistral, “Cobre (Copper),” in Poema de Chile. (Barcelona: Editorial Pomaire, 1967).

“Day by day you became
the poor, dormant stone
the poor stone that sleeps
and endures and hates the flame
and you are, now, all your dead
before being buried.”