Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Author:Elizabeth Acevedo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-03-08T16:00:00+00:00


Camino Yahaira

Everyone in the house

is feeling some type of way.

& since it’s only me & Mami,

what I mean is we are tiptoeing around.

Mami pads through the house

writing checks for bills

I didn’t even know we had.

Mami is spending money

on a promise; she is spending money

we don’t even truly have yet.

She ignores work, forgets appointments.

I do not recognize this reckless woman

who has taken residence in my mother’s body.

But I also don’t want her to leave

a place I know is safe. So I say nothing.

I make her lunch she doesn’t touch,

& I climb through the Johnsons’ window

when I need to hear noise around me.

If tension is a winged monster,

it’s cast its feathers

on the roof of my house.



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