BIO
Tanya Castro is a Guatemalan-American writer from Oakland, California. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Saint Mary’s College of California and holds a BA in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Tanya has work forthcoming in The Lit Pub.
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How The Clouds Protect The Sun
To My Brother
The objective is to walk into the night
be engulfed entirely, nada que ilumine
guiding steps as we spook ourselves
into running back to camp where fire
smokes signals of safety in the arms
of protective parents who feed us
clouds of gentle that withstand the
tenebroso as dawn approaches to show
us how easy it is to be regurgitated
into the lake where if you hear la llorona
cry in the distance it means she is right
behind you, if you believe in that sort of
thing, which we didn’t but at that age
you could feel her respirando down your
neck and the only thing I thought about
was to grab your hand, run and if for some
reason we tripped then I would be the first
to go because you were the sun always
hiding behind the clouds where I protected
you from seeing how dark the world was
even in the days you brightened it.