Tag: struggle
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permeable
You scan a catalogue and find options. I wake up the neighbors knocking on doors. You know all the inside scoops. I dive into trial and error. You call your thoughts masterpieces. I label my work in-progress. You sound and look flawless. I stumble across words and wear my closet. You got the world backing you up. I got the world…
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an undergraduate struggle
Rarely do I admit this, but most of my undergraduate courses don’t inspire energy. On the contrary, they rob me of energy. For 4 semesters (and one more to go), I have gone through requirement courses: general education or transfer suggestions. In general, a community college student doesn’t have freewill when it comes to courses.…
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1,000 miles: step 28
My milestone says 4 days to go until the April 10th national immigration reform marches. Today I visited CARECEN in Washington, DC and helped with further mobilization efforts. Up until today my efforts have been making phone calls to immigrants in the DC community and sharing the march flyer with my local community. This famous…
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1,000 miles: step 17
“I suppose, I love this life in spite of my clenched fist. …we all have different reasons for forgetting how to breathe…” Last Wednesday, my English professor shared Andrea Gibson’s “For Eli” with our class. He said the video was a response from one of our classmates to a class discussion on war. He meant,…
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1,000 miles: step 16
With a biology test and a precalculus exam this week, it would make sense for this to be another week spent poem-less. And it will be. Right after this drafty interlude: second breath Stick a needle through my tongue, stitching your thin string, spell out your grievance: its icing so thick, it’s almost sweet. You…
Claudia Rojas 