by Erika Marlenne Velasco Godinez
My body remembers
In the nooks of my skin
My pores bristled.
They come like flashbacks
the painful moments of my life.
pieces of lead embedded in my mind
they remember other times
another person who is no longer me.
A gust runs through my spine
flashes of unpleasant sensations,
the crystals show the reflection
of thorns that have molded my flesh.
they reopen wounds
on newly healed scars,
damage my skin
like ripe fruit.
The signs traveled through my mind
the grooves of my veins reopen,
where everything comes at once.
Where the circular circuits
resurface the physical grooves of my being.
Erika Marlenne Velasco Godinez (Mexico City, 1998) is a mexican writer with a Bahelor's Degree in Hispanic Language and Literature. Since last year, some of her works has been published in different media,both in Spanish and English, such as GOOOYA!, Revista de la Universidad, Universo de Letras, Letralia, House of Poetry, among others. She is an avid believer that writing as a woman has positioned her in the writing and in perspective of the world.