Written ca. 2010; published on 1 January 2019; republished on 16 December 2020

Image: “Southern Arizona,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com .. 

Image: “Southern Arizona,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com .. 

EL CORAZON
A Prose Poem by Alice B. Clagett
ca. 2010

A man told me something once,
and my mind keeps floating back to it
from time to time.
Not just to the words,
but to the way he said them
— with such certain, tender dignity.

“We are La Raza.
And what makes us
different from other people?”
He touched his chest.
“El corazón.”

–from Link: “El Corazon,” a prose poem by Alice B. Clagett, written ca. 2010; published on 1 January 2019; republished on 16 December 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-l4e ..

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