Old Home Videos, Circa 2000
My father’s greatest heist was my memories. Moments captured and stolen. My youths end, 1 minute and 30 seconds. Father plays emotional ransom with my lifetime, holds photographs and videos…
Tag: love
SALAS
In my freshman year of college, I was a part of a history research project. Its goal was to find out the history of Salinas and study its immigration patterns,…
CONQUEROR
You stole every one of our stories, Chest blossoming with anger when we dare to claim anything. The locks that fed and grew Nations. You call it past when it…
Sally- 1st place SUHSD Poetry Competition
Poem Transcribed As Performed Warning this poem contains situations of sexual assault and post traumatic stress disorder. For the things, I left unsaid in my last poem and the chains…
Survival Skills 101- 1st place SUHSD Poetry Competition
Poem transcribed as performed. I can’t remember the last thing he ever said to me. I’m starting to forget what he looks like, maybe that’s why I decided to write…
The Way I Was Made- 2nd place at NEA Big Read
“The worst injury is feeling you don’t belong so much / to you” I am 1 in 4. Not 1 in 4 to rebel against my parents and dye my…
Kenya Burton Poetry 