Sandra Cisneros Poems

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1.
Cloud

Before you became a cloud, you were an ocean, roiled and
murmuring like a mouth. You were the shadow of a cloud
crossing over a field of tulips. You were the tears of a
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2.
Black Lace Bra Kind of Woman

Wachale! She's a black lace bra
kind of woman, the kind who serves
up suicide with every kamikaze
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3.
One Last Poem For Richard

December 24th and we're through again.

This time for good I know because I didn't
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4.
Bay Poem from Berkeley

Mornings I still
reach for you before
opening my eyes.
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5.
Love Poem For a Non-Believer

Because I miss
you I run my hand
along the flat of my thigh
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6.
You Bring Out The Mexican In Me

You bring out the Mexican in me.
The hunkered thick dark spiral.
The core of a heart howl.
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7.
Loose Woman

They say I'm a beast.
And feast on it. When all along
I thought that's what a woman was.
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8.
You Called Me Corazón

That was enough
for me to forgive you.
To spirit a tiger
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9.
Perras

I can't imagine that goofy white woman
with you. Her pink skin on your dark.
Your tongue on hers. I can't
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10.
With Lorenzo at the Center of the Universe

We had to cross the street twice
because of rats. But there it was.
The zócalo at night and la Calle de la Moneda
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