Unas Por Otras
every email opens with a violence
a u for an o, an o for an a
an attempt to correct
fix the broken thing
inch it closer to the familiar
not erasure but unsolicited revision
when a name isn’t what you expect
you take it upon yourself to make it yours
you pet it sing to it then deny it water
Capó-García, Paola. "Unas Por Otras." Proyecto de la literatura puertoriqueña/Puerto Rican Literature Project, 2024.
Rights: Paola Capó-García