Crush lavender seeds in your fingers, and then, eyes closed, take a deep breath into your hands

You press your warm body onto me

I am still half asleep

My body too desires you, but not yet

Hoy vi a la viejita que llevo adentro

Determinada, atrevida se asomó sin escrúpulos

When I’m by her side, I slip back into my 7-year old me

Melba became a pampered toddler; mothered by plenty, mothered by none

I remember Cocofina of the world

Her back turned to the bedroom’s window

Eyes shut, chin up, taking deep breaths