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    Corazón
    Corazón
    Corazón
    Ebook103 pages38 minutes

    Corazón

    By Yesika Salgado

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    Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn't enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown body, her parents home country, a lover, a toothbrush, a mango, or a song. It is a celebration of heartache, of how it can ruin us, but most importantly how we always survive it and return to ourselves whole.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNot A Cult
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781945649288
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      This book has a compelling storyline and was actually hard to put down. By the way, there is a competition happening right now till the end of May on the NovelStar app, I hope you can consider joining. If you have more stories like this, you can also publish them there just email the editors hardy@novelstar.top, joye@novelstar.top lena@novelstar.top.

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    Corazón - Yesika Salgado

    Yesika

    The Hunger

    Jenny and I

    mangoes / the green ones / we used stones or large sticks to knock from their branches / we’d sit and eat / then and there / our small buckets in our laps / a bag of salt between us / the cows and their large soft eyes would stare / eyes like a first time lover / like a face so tender it might cry / we were children then / you and I / our grandmother Mamita was still alive / she stood at the top of the hill and yelled our names / there was a river behind us / a small quiet thing we’d wade into / when no one was watching / one time you and the boys knocked over a beehive / and ran so far up the hill it looked like you were flying / I wasn’t with you that day / I was afraid of everything / except the poems / they’ve always been here / you would leave for adventures in that country we considered wild / all that green / all those animals / I preferred my pen and paper / my bare feet on concrete / my hot coffee at 3 pm / overhearing Tia gossip with Mamita / the green mangoes in their buckets / slowly changing / like you and I / the summers I wore my adolescence like a yoke / my heart as heavy as clay / love a dangling fruit I ached to eat / and you remained a little girl / laughing into a sky we call home / but know nothing of

    A Salvadoran Heart

    I.

    I come from women of corn and cotton fields / of machete and fire / of water and stone / I am the daughter of a river and mango tree / my tongue came to me through the jocote seed / my heart belonged to the ocean / before it found my body

    II.

    every man I have loved does not know my country / has not been awakened by the roosters’ crow / does not know the swell of grass and dirt beneath June thunderstorms / does not smell burning wood and think of home

    III.

    I learned to forgive before I learned to speak / to turn palms upward to God and my lover / to let a man ruin me with his love / to call the ruins sacred / to uproot everything and call the new place mine / to name the nostalgia something sweet / a ripened fruit growing out of a dying tree

    IV.

    my father died and my mother remained alone / I am and unmarried / I am asked if I want a husband / asked if I will return to my country / they are the same question / I

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