Cindy Jiménez-Vera (b. 1978, San Sebastián del Pepino) is a poet, librarian, translator, and editor. She is the author of I’ll Trade You This Island: Selected Poems / Te cambio esta isla: poemas escogidos, translated from the Spanish by Guillermo Rebollo-Gil.
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Colonists
Over there in that urban landscape
where two trees are barely distinguishable,
decades ago there was a river
overwhelming and sweet
t…
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