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  Alba Cruz-Hacker is originally from the Dominican Republic, and has lived and traveled throughout Central and North America and the Caribbean. A Pushcart Prize Nominee, some of her recent work appears, or is forthcoming, in The Caribbean Writer, Canadian Woman Studies, Spillway Review, Pacific Review, DMQ Review, Miller’s Pond, Swivel, Folly, Epicenter, American Encyclopedia of Ethnic Literature, and Soundings: A Journal of Exploratory Research and Analysis. She lives in Southern California.  


Winter 2006

Table of Contents - Vol. II, No. 4

Poetry    Essays    Fiction    Book Notes & Reviews

 

Alba Cruz-Hacker

 

Desaparecidas

Daughters of Juarez, I need to dig
through the darkness that silenced your lips.

Who peeled the flesh from your thighs?
Who slit open the brown nipples on your chests?
Men robbed your wombs to feed their dogs.

Four hundred crosses stab the ground,
growing roots. They are flanked
by fat trees fed with your blood.

Their twisted branches vault
the echoes of your cries.

 

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