Aquí
Estoy aquí
I am here
in the space
between a word
and its translation.
Between concept
and comprehension
where I accept
realities resisted before
and see the same meaning
in two strings of letters,
no longer separate
but melded into one
like the tilde over the ñ.
Mañana
Tomorrow
todo
everything
podría cambiar
could change.
The only truth
within a word
and its translation.
Estoy aquí
I am here
hoy
today.
Jacqueline Jules is the author of three chapbooks, Field Trip to the Museum, (Finishing Line Press), Stronger Than Cleopatra (ELJ Publications), and Itzhak Perlman’s Broken String (Winner, Helen Kay Chapbook Prize 2016, Evening Street Press). Her work has appeared in over 100 publications.
More of her work:
Bermuda, Sinking City Lit Mag
Illusions, River River Journal
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