{"id":3074,"date":"2025-04-29T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spanglishvoces.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2025-04-30T00:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:48:29","slug":"so-like-what-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spanglishvoces.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/so-like-what-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"So, like, what are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am my mother\u2019s daughter<\/span><\/p>\n

I am my mother\u2019s mother\u2019s daughter<\/span><\/p>\n

I am my mother\u2019s mother\u2019s mother\u2019s daughter<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tengo a Claudia en mi sangre<\/span><\/p>\n

A Susana<\/span><\/p>\n

Emma y a las dem\u00e1s<\/span><\/p>\n

(Que nunca conoc\u00ed en persona)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pero las siento en mi paso<\/span><\/p>\n

De extraterrestre en la nieve que<\/span><\/p>\n

Susana<\/span><\/p>\n

Emma y ellas<\/span><\/p>\n

Nunca conocieron en vida<\/span><\/p>\n

Nunca se imaginaron c\u00f3mo duelen los huesos del fr\u00edo<\/span><\/p>\n

En una tierra sin ancestros de tierra<\/span><\/p>\n

Mis ancestras las cargo en mi sangre<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Me dieron mis ojos<\/span><\/p>\n

Mi boca<\/span><\/p>\n

Mis o\u00eddos<\/span><\/p>\n

Mis manos<\/span><\/p>\n

Mis pies<\/span><\/p>\n

Las cargo en mi sangre<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

These women breathe in me<\/span><\/p>\n

Their salt on their wrinkled hands<\/span><\/p>\n

Their wrinkled faces from the sun<\/span><\/p>\n

Their wrinkled fists from their luchas<\/span><\/p>\n

En sus dimensiones de selva<\/span><\/p>\n

De tierra caliente que ruge en mis venas<\/span><\/p>\n

Que ruge en mis palabras porque siempre quisieron escribir<\/span><\/p>\n

Pero en el campo no hab\u00eda papel<\/span><\/p>\n

Y criar hijos y cocinar no da tiempo para bober\u00edas<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And school was getting married<\/span><\/p>\n

Managing a household<\/span><\/p>\n

Managing their faces because tears are private<\/span><\/p>\n

Llorar te hace d\u00e9bil<\/span><\/p>\n

Y ellas tienen que ser fuertes por sus hijos y sus luchas<\/span><\/p>\n

Que no cobijan sue\u00f1os bohemios porque la vida real es dura<\/span><\/p>\n

And the act of writing poetry is a privilege<\/span><\/p>\n

Lucharon para que un d\u00eda una de ellas<\/span><\/p>\n

La hija de la hija<\/span><\/p>\n

De la hija<\/span><\/p>\n

De la hija<\/span><\/p>\n

Could one day write and write and write<\/span><\/p>\n

And cry and fight and shut the men up<\/span><\/p>\n

Ellas no pensar\u00edan que alguna de su sangre<\/span><\/p>\n

Hablar\u00eda en lenguas extraterrestres<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even think they\u2019d imagine their child<\/span><\/p>\n

Would have un gato indoors<\/span><\/p>\n

Would live with a man without a priest\u2019s blessing<\/span><\/p>\n

Would speak these tongues<\/span><\/p>\n

These codes <\/span><\/p>\n

And forget e<\/span>l patriotismo tricolor<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pero mujeres<\/span><\/p>\n

Las llevo en la sangre y me cantan when I roar<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"Angela Pico is a poet in Spanish, English and Spanglish. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship and the Stanley Award. She is a PhD candidate in US Latino Literature at the University of Maryland, where she is an instructor of US Latino Literature and Creative Writing. She received her BA in Romance Languages and Literatures from Pomona College, and she also has an MA in French and Francophone World Studies from the University of Iowa. Angela writes poetry, prose and children\u2019s stories. She has performed her work in Iowa City, Chicago and Washington DC. She is also a trained visual artist who has marketed her artwork in the Washington DC area. She was born in Bogota, Colombia and grew up in Western North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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