little warrior
almost imperceptibly
scarred
from so much healing
how many regrown limbs
how many repaired organs
even precious
brain tissue
created anew
almost imperceptibly
scarred
from so much healing
how many regrown limbs
how many repaired organs
even precious
brain tissue
created anew
teach me this
little warrior
how you remain
tender and
infinite
soft and eternal
in the face of struggle
how it is the healing
has already begun
even before the wound
little warrior
how you remain
tender and
infinite
soft and eternal
in the face of struggle
how it is the healing
has already begun
even before the wound
ire’ne lara silva is the author of two poetry collections, furia and Blood Sugar Canto, and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. ire’ne is the recipient of a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, the final recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, and the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award. A new poetry collection, CUICACALLI/House of Song, is forthcoming in March 2019.
