from: "When a Story is an Heirloom"

their stories are fractures
in our ribs
as we slowly breathe out
the subsistence of our departed
                      sangre de sangre
                      who come out
rolling the punches
and remembering the relampagos
of their earthly existence,
slowly invading
space only the living
are given credit for.

Suárez, Priscilla Celina. “When a Story is an Heirloom.” La La Landia: A Journey Through My Frontera CD Shuffle. Flowersong Press, 2022, pp. 60-62