Tell me I’ll be beautiful when I’m 93 / that I’ll burn with a knowing / that my bones will stop hurting / tell me I’ll finally be beautiful when I go blind / don’t fret / stay beautifully blue, she says, from across the ocean no smooth young thing, I was born old / […]
Ingrid Calderon-Collins
Ingrid M. Calderon-Collins is an immigrant from El Salvador. She studied journalism at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA. Her work has been featured in Drunk Monkeys, Rabid Oak, and Rhythm & Bones Lit, among others. She is also the author of four volumes of poetry, Things Outside, Wayward, Zenith, and Ablution. She lives in Historic Filipinotown, CA with her husband, painter, and poet, John Collins.