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    Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes

    Dec 11, 2019 2 minutes

    these five hundred years in our bones
    striated conquistas dragging
    the letters of the harrowed tongue
    into the geography
    of our marrow, down
    —from “prayer for the children who will be born with today’s daggers in their tomorrow eyes”

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