BIO
Luivette Resto, a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic, was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. Her two books of poetry Unfinished Portrait and Ascension have been published by Tía Chucha Press. She is a CantoMundo fellow. Some of her latest work can be read in Cultural Weekly and in a forthcoming anthology titled What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump published by Northwestern University Press. Currently, she lives in the Los Angeles area with her three revolutionaries.
When I visited the ocean
she told me
I was strong as her currents,
unpredictable like the tides.
She told me
brujas on blood moon nights
unpredictable like the tides
gather by her recursive feet
with a hand full of silvers coins because brujas
know how to worship her coastline like an altar
and stand by her recursive feet
as the perigean tide allows a kiss.
To worship her coastline like an altar
full of intention while gray waves move
like a plena as the tide allows a kiss
entropically move from me to you.
With full intention, waves glide
across our feet as her answers
whisper from me to you
strong as her currents.