All in by Yaddyra Peralta
by Yaddyra Peralta
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by Yaddyra Peralta
For Hurricane Irma
Come water.
Come lift me
bodily, in hopes
that my soul too
may rise.
Come wreck
the artifacts
of this lived life.
Come lick
my fingerprints off
the childhood photos.
Take the travel guidebooks,
the embossed-in-plastic
Made in Chinas.
Carry me out
to open sea.
Let the salt feed
on my memories.
Outliving the Holocene
drifting and unseen
with the plankton
let me live.
Past memory, I will return
too cool to be a prodigal.
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Yaddyra Peralta is a poet. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Jai-alai, Abe’s Penny, Tigertail, The New Poet, and Hinchas de Poesia. In 2013 she was a Visiting Writer at the Betsy Hotel’s Writer’s Room in South Miami Beach, Florida, and one of six collaborative Helen M. Salzberg Artists in Residence at Florida Atlantic University’s Jaffe Center for the Book Arts, where she completed the book Conversation, Too, along with Tom Virgin, John Dufresne, Kari Snyder, Laura Tan and Michael Hettich.