To my sister in another continent I can easily imagine the universe at the precise point prior to the Big Bang when neither poets nor poems existed, and the tongue silent and immobile inside the mouth could not utter a single word, or when the Cherokees’ mythic stories waited for their shamans to chant them. […]
Alicia Viguer-Espert
Alicia Viguer-Espert, a three times Pushcart Award nominee and also, one-time Best of The Net nominee, was born and raised in Valencia, Spain. Her work has been published nationally and internationally in journals, print media and anthologies. Winner of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival on 2017, she is the author of three chapbooks. In addition, she’s included in “Top 39 LA poets,” “Ten Poets to Watch 2018” and “Bards of Southern California: Top 30 Poets,” by Spectrum.
Pero Yo ya no Soy Yo*
I search on the hidden face of the moon for the sadness my mother left on my temples every time she kissed me missing me already, and the steady hands with which I gambled an enviable future for this American world. A memory of my beginning shapes into a fist. Our home in the country […]