imagine me
Carmelo Barrera Cruz
you may know my name
you don’t know My face,
not yet.
you may know my words,
you don’t know My face,
not yet.
you may know my art,
you don’t know My face,
not yet.
now, I’m going to paint
with my words.
imagine:
a skinny, 5’6 chaparrito
despelucada with hair to the base of the neck
caramel colored skin,
like toasted caramel right before it burns
I am una nepantlera
look past my deceiving woodbrown eyes
look at my serpent tongue
look at how I’m split in two, you’re staring at my fragmentations
look past your rose-colored glasses
I am a hybridization
of my ancestors
of my cultures
of my nationalities
of my Shadow and I
I am Human and inHuman
in the 3rd Space.