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Grisel Y. Acosta

Grisel Y. Acosta is an associate professor at the City University of New York-BCC. She is the author of the collection Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.

We Carry the Earth

We bring the harvest and lay it at an altar of bread crust, pierced gold earrings, and the bones of our first born Banana leaves halo the foundation of her body, we salt the sand she rests upon, sprinkling the mineral from seashells We pick translucent grapes and squeeze the ...