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Joe Navarro, "Word Murals" (poem)

I bleed

Con la sangre

De mis antepasados

Alive with each beat of

Mi corazón

I sometimes paint

With each stroke

Of my pen

Mi pluma, a feather

That magically

Paints murales

De palabras

En espacios libres

Word murals

Recitando poemas

De lucha, de paz

Of oppression and liberty

Hate and the power of amor

Mujer y hombre

Las palabras pintadas

De todo lo que

Tiene que ver

Con la vida humana

Por eso...that’s why I write poesía

Because in those

Moments of poetic liberación

Where my blood A

dorns a page

I feel liberated, too

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