Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle

Author:Margarita Engle
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781627797825
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Bernardino de Talavera

All my years in the Americas

have passed without any need

to learn a tribal tongue.

There were always enough

quebrado children, divided souls

who found it easy to translate.

Now, my fate rests in the voice

of a broken boy who hates me.

He has grown bold enough

to defy me, but I can easily

make him timid again.

I know how to turn

newfound courage

into terror.

Alonso de Ojeda

Anger seeps

into my deep well

of fear.

In Venezuela,

I was the ruler of all

and now I rule nothing,

not even my own rotting leg

or the ghosts

or my fear.

So I wait for an end

to the broken boy’s

confusing speech

in a language that sounds

like the familiar whispers

of hateful phantoms.

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