Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, and she was raised in Fresno, California. She is both an indígena and undocumented poet of Zapoteco descent. While she’s pursuing her Creative Writing MFA for Poetry at CSU, Fresno, she’s also a graduate artist at Juan Felipe Herrera’s Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio and has received a fellowship from Community of Writers. Her poetry has appeared in Small Press Traffic, Acentos Review, Zone 3, Poets.org, Honey Literary, The Ana, Voicemail Poems, and elsewhere.
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Alien
Her mouth mumbles beads
Locust leaves sequin
Jug of her small to glassroot
The foreign body lives
To grasp signals and cartilage
I visit her brain diabetes greenwood
A place to project static
The key to unchamber
Point center flesh
I drill ridges on the bulk of her skirt
Moss forest hand dialects
I can’t see her inverted face
My arms stitch embroidery pine
Each needle threads her closer
Her bone houses my bed
Her pulse inside my brain
Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
Alien
Her mouth mumbles beads
Locust leaves sequin
Jug of her small to glassroot
The foreign body lives
To grasp signals and cartilage
I visit her brain diabetes greenwood
A place to project static
The key to unchamber
Point center flesh
I drill ridges on the bulk of her skirt
Moss forest hand dialects
I can’t see her inverted face
My arms stitch embroidery pine
Each needle threads her closer
Her bone houses my bed
Her pulse inside my brain
Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, and she was raised in Fresno, California. She is both an indígena and undocumented poet of Zapoteco descent. While she’s pursuing her Creative Writing MFA for Poetry at CSU, Fresno, she’s also a graduate artist at Juan Felipe Herrera’s Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio and has received a fellowship from Community of Writers. Her poetry has appeared in Small Press Traffic, Acentos Review, Zone 3, Poets.org, Honey Literary, The Ana, Voicemail Poems, and elsewhere.