Raquel Salas Rivera

is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. This poem is taken from his latest collection antes que isla es volcán/before island is volcano.

the poet defends his right to a future and demands its immediate redistribution the poet defends his right to a future and demands its immediate redistribution

the right to be stone if you take the snow to the caribbean sea, it melts. if you destroy capital’s temperaments, we return. you can’t concoct water, only its forms. to interrupt t…

May 24, 2022 / Poems / Raquel Salas Rivera

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