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Is this the face<\/span>
\nof a tongue?<\/span><\/p>\n

you Spanish?<\/span><\/p>\n

this pasty winter olive<\/span>
\nthis summer hash brown<\/span>
\nthe color of a language?<\/span><\/p>\n

you Spanish?<\/span><\/p>\n

do I have a tilde<\/span>
\nfor a mustache,<\/span><\/p>\n

an accent for a brow,<\/span><\/p>\n

this head of dark waves,<\/span>
\nthe hair<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0of an idiom?<\/span><\/p>\n

you Spanish?<\/span><\/p>\n

is this<\/span>
\nswarthy pupil<\/span>
\nthis cold stare<\/span>
\nthe eye of<\/span>
\nspeech?<\/span><\/p>\n

you Spanish?<\/span><\/p>\n

when i open<\/span>
\nmy mouth,<\/span>
\ndo you hear<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 a dusk of vowels<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0backward<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 brunette?<\/span><\/p>\n

yeah you Spanish.<\/span>
\ndon\u2019t understand<\/span>
\na word you say.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"Sheila Maldonado<\/a> is the author of the poetry collections one-bedroom solo (Fly by Night Press, 2011) and that’s what you get, forthcoming from Brooklyn Arts Press. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and a Creative Capital awardee as part of desveladas, a visual writing collective. She lives in uptown Manhattan where she is working on bloodletters, a book about a lifelong obsession with the ancient Maya. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, the daughter of Honduran immigrants.<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/sheilamaldonado.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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