las heliconias
i like the way
our last names
wet our parched tongues
the way the
Usumacinta
Ulúa
Magdalena
Orinoco
Amazon
Ucoyali
Xingu
Paraguay
Paraná
rivers,
offered
our ancestors
enduring heartbeats
infinite lushness
the bluest witness,
how beauty could weep
amongst the emerald, crocodile, juniper,
greens
when they came
with ravenous hearts
while the heliconias cradled
our blooming resurrection