Julissa
R. Yael Weissburg
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"That day outside the courtroom when you fell into my arms ...

I didn’t realize how quickly I’d come to love you,
in our broken sentences, our tightly held hands,
our reassuring touch when we ran out of words."

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The Interpreter
R. Yael Weissburg
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"What is it like, I wonder, to know someone’s fate before they do?
To translate their future into existence?
To be its messenger?"

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R. Yael Weissburg
In Seminerio’s Courtroom

"I wonder, how did his people arrive here?
From Mexico? Ecuador? Peru?
Did they come on Spanish ships, preaching Christ?

Did his grandmother, young and pregnant, also flee violent men?"

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Espejo Roto / Broken Mirror
Sofía Reyes

"mis papeles dicen que existo,
que soy real
pero el miedo no sabe leer,
no pide documentos"
...
"my papers say I exist
that I am real
but fear doesn’t know how to read
doesn’t ask for documents"

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