Como t\u00fa<\/em><\/a><\/p>\nComo t\u00fa<\/strong><\/em>, I question history\u2019s blur in my eyes
\neach time I face a mirror. Like a mirror, I gaze
\ninto my palm a wrinkled map I still can\u2019t read,
\nmy lifeline an unnamed road I can\u2019t find, can\u2019t
\ntrace back to the fork in my parents\u2019 trek<\/strong>
\nthat cradled me here. Como t\u00fa<\/strong><\/em>, I woke up to<\/strong>
\nthis dream of a country I didn\u2019t choose<\/strong>, that
\ndidn\u2019t choose me\u2014trapped in the nightmare
\nof its hateful glares. Como t\u00fa<\/strong><\/em>, I\u2019m also from<\/strong>
\nthe lakes and farms, waterfalls and prairies
\nof another country I can\u2019t fully claim either.
\nComo t\u00fa<\/strong><\/em>,<\/strong> I am either a mirage living among
\nthese faces and streets that raised me here,<\/strong>
\nor I\u2019m nothing, a memory<\/strong> forgotten by all
\nI was taken from and can\u2019t return to again.<\/strong><\/p>\nLike memory, at times I wish I could erase
\nthe music of my name<\/strong> in Spanish, at times
\nI cherish it, and despise my other syllables
\nclashing in English. Como t\u00fa<\/strong><\/em>,<\/strong> I want to speak
\nof myself in two languages at once<\/strong>. Despite
\nmy tongues, no word defines me<\/strong>. Like words,
\nI read my footprints like my past, erased by
\nwaves of circumstance, my future uncertain
\nas wind. Like the wind, como tu\u0301<\/strong><\/em>, I carry songs,
\nhowls, whispers, thunder\u2019s growl. Like thunder,
\nI\u2019m a foreign-borne cloud that\u2019s drifted here,
\nI\u2019m lightning, and the balm of rain. Como tu\u0301<\/strong><\/em>,<\/strong>
\nour blood rains for the dirty thirst of this land.
\nLike thirst, like hunger, we ache with the need<\/strong>
\nto save ourselves<\/strong>, and our country<\/strong> from itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nosotras en Acci\u00f3n Comunitaria de la Alimentaci\u00f3n entiende bien que estamos haciendo nuestro trabajo en un entorno pol\u00edtico que intenta crear una identidad estadounidense a trav\u00e9s de la exclusi\u00f3n. Este es un camino equivocado, que tambi\u00e9n es responsable de la adversidad y el desplazamiento, al igual que las crisis emocionales. En resistencia nosotros esforzamos por […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-es"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}