I Persist: A Poem of Broken Truths, Flesh, Voice & Silence

by Rodrigo Palacios October 29, 2026

donde tiembla enmarañada
la oscura raíz del grito.
— Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre

(“where, tangled, trembles / the dark root of the cry.”)

i live

i persist

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between three words:

inscribed.

contracted.

false.

they deceive me

words that drip

Blood

i touch the pool with bare elbows

sangre de mi sangre—

broken in three

who cries now?

words that cleave

flesh / voice / bone

i cannot hear

silence.

why persist?

drip

rip