Maldición
Curse the candle dripping till dawn & the little stone Virgen, her dress of blood-red folds. Down streets, the long yellow petal of school bus swallows its daily fill. It idles in the silver lot, mouth flung open. Curse the lurking SUVs, the sunglasses & padded chests. Curse these small, zip-tied hands.
Rachel Aguirre is a poet and Spanish teacher from San Antonio, Texas. Her poems are published or forthcoming in Passages North, On the Seawall, The Summerset Review, Puerto del Sol, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and she is currently associate editor for fws: journal of literature & art.