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    Rolling Out Tortillas (Flapperhouse)

    March 5, 2016

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    Sarah Frances Moran

     

    Link to purchase work:  http://www.amazon.com/FLAPPERHOUSE-Spring-Joseph-P-OBrien/dp/1530316626/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458399714&sr=8-1&keywords=flapperhouse+%239

     

    Rolling Out Tortillas

     

    Roll out the dough.

    Roll out the crossing of rivers and

    sun scorched skin.

    Roll out fingers brittle from a cotton gin

    and a mind, only educated as far as picking a plant

    can go.

    Roll out dozens of siblings and cousins so vast

    you have trouble remembering their names.

     

    Roll out shame.

    Roll out the way the white tongue has trouble

    rolling the  r

    Roll out and leave that part of you there, flattened.

    Roll out eating ice cream outside because

    only whites were allowed inside.

    Roll out being told you can only speak English

    to my children

    Roll out losing your native tongue to love

     

    Roll out your half-breed children

    Roll out their light skin and the privilege they’ll

    have the opportunity not to appreciate.

    Roll out the Almendarez so Davis can fully set in.

     

    Roll out the American Flag,

    Roll it far and wide and so far and so wide

    that you forget where San Luis Potosí

    even is.

     

    Roll out the Chicana in you.

    Roll it out so it makes it ok to use wetback liberally.

    Roll it until it’s so thin you can only see the white

    reflected in your face, until your dark hair and dark eyes, pale.

     

    Teach me how to hold that rollingpin;

    So I can remember this labor.

    So I can remember how we keep our bellies warm.

    So I can remember why my hair stays so curly and how

    sometimes, I can see my ancestors through this storm.

    Roll out that tortilla and toss it on the comal.

    When it hits your tongue,

    tell me how you’ve worked so hard to forget,

    and tell me,

    when it melts in your mouth…

     

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