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Remittances

Pérez, Elizabeth
Meridians , Volume 21 (1) – Apr 1, 2022
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/article-pdf/21/1/155/1610217/155perez.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 POETRY Elizabeth Pérez ......................................................................................... Santiago de Cuba, 1996 Nephew my grandfather loved (tanned man at my sunburned elbow): you introduced me as myself to your wife, circular visage burning with the urgency of a silver bowl tarnishing on your table. Forty-some years ago your father’s blonde father (my great-grand), distantly Italian, forbid his son’s marriage to a Negra in writing that few in town could read. Your parents eloped, snapping sugarcane shafts underfoot, the final crush after snubbing a compulsory harvest. As soon as your mother bore her sole child, wriggling in the heat of a legendary fall, my great-uncle (your father) leapt at a flight meridians feminism, race, transnationalism 21:1 April 2022 doi: 10.1215/15366936-9554112 © 2022 Smith College Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/article-pdf/21/1/155/1610217/155perez.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 156 meridians 21:1 April 2022 to the United States with a bottle-redhead twelve years his senior. His brother embarked on regular visits, bearing wheeled toys and custard apple candy from the capital. Turning to purpose what he learned from brotherless sisters on the plantations of the interior, he never stooped at your mother’sdoor (whistling apart his obsidian mustache)

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Published: Apr 1, 2022

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