A Poem for You: poem where no one is deported
admin2021-01-21T14:05:22-05:00poem where no one is deported José Olivarez now i like to imagine la migra running into the sock factory where my mom & her friends worked. it was all women who worked there. women who braided each other’s hair during breaks. women who wore rosaries, & never had a hair out of place. women who were ready for cameras or for God, who ended all their sentences with si dios quiere. as in: the day before the immigration raid when the rumor of a raid was passed around like bread & the women made plans, si dios quiere. so when [...]