offwithitshead:

jalwhite:

what secrets do your bones hold/ what pattern does your dust settle into when i beat these drums inside my ribs / what color was the soil of your grandmother’s garden/ grandma, how did you pray?

Mayda del Valle performing at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009.

“Abuela, how did you pray before someone told you who your God should be?”