Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar

Author:Aida Salazar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Inside the cell

minutes stretch

into hours since

we last saw

Josefina and Carlos.

Mami gathers all three of us

into her warm mama body

made of soft feathers.

There is much more

of her to share now.

She calms their cries

takes turns stroking our hair.

Everything will be all right.

A dentist is seeing your brother

and they will help him.

Your mami is making sure of it.

She will be back before you know it.

She convinces me

but by the look

of the hard quiet

of the sisters

I don’t think

they believe Mami.

Yanela stares

over and beyond us

so absent, so far.

But then, Mami starts to sing

the song about a paraíso

and the chick in the egg

starts to kick

which we feel on our faces

as we snuggle against her.

And this way

around Mami

we are all lulled

and pulled

into her song

and we sleep.

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