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monica Colón

Self-portrait as St. Joseph

I don't care much about
      being remembered. If it happens, it'll happen

by accident, a right-place-right-time sort of thing.
      My ideal: to do no harm. I regret

my almost-divorce and those two doves
      we brought to the temple.

I listen to my dreams, not
      to kings. When my family

comes to strange lands, I try to shield them.
     When I wish to be louder or to let

another provide, I think of what I want:
      to hold a child in one

arm and lilies in the other. To have nothing
       to do with their begetting.
September / October, 2022

Barbara Daniels
Monica Colón (she/her/ella) is a Salvadoran/American writer from Texas. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in SWWIM Every Day, Susurrus Magazine, fifth wheel press, and the winnow magazine. She has received a Pushcart Prize nomination and the Iris N. Spencer Sonnet Award from West Chester University Poetry Center.
Art:  Madge Evers. For the Birds. Mushroom spores on paper. 
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