Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories by Cisneros Sandra

Author:Cisneros, Sandra [Cisneros, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry, feminism, Contemporary, Anthologies, Adult
ISBN: 9780804150880
Goodreads: 17736864
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1991-04-03T08:00:00+00:00

They say I am the one who caused her children to die. From jealousy, from envy. What do you say? Her boy and girl both dead before they stopped sucking teat. She won’t bear you any more children. But my boy, my girl are alive.

When a customer walks away after you’ve named your price, and then he comes back, that’s when you raise your price. When you know you have what he wants. Something I learned from your horse-trading years.

You married her, that woman from Villa de Ayala, true. But see, you came back to me. You always come back. In between and beyond the others. That’s my magic. You come back to me.

You visited me again Thursday last. I yanked you from the bed of that other one. I dreamt you, and when I awoke I was sure your spirit had just fluttered from the room. I have yanked you from your sleep before into the dream I was dreaming. Twisted you like a spiral of hair around a finger. Love, you arrived with your heart full of birds. And when you would not do my bidding and come when I commanded, I turned into the soul of a tecolote and kept vigil in the branches of a purple jacaranda outside your door to make sure no one would do my Miliano harm while he slept.

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