Women Who Crossed
By Claudia Excaret Santos
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¹ On the other side,
there is my father.
So I pray, and pray, and pray,
to never go over the fence again.
² When women cross the border,
coyotes get rooms at motels.
When coyotes get rooms,
everybody knows,
and still,
no one walks into the room for you.
³ Here I inhabit the house I was searching for:
my own.
Claudia Excaret Santos (@claudiaexcaret) is a Mexican writer, translator, and content creator. She received the PECDA Colima 2024 grant. She founded the YouTube channel La secta de los libros and the podcast Libros y otras cosas fuera del transporte in which she interviews authors and reviews books in order to promote literature. She has been selected by the international Rio Grande Valley festival to have her poetry published in the printed anthology Boundless 2022, and Boundless 2024. She has also been selected as a poet for two years in a row by the international festival Primavera bonita, in Mexico City. Her poetry has been published in the printed anthology Novisímas (Libros del perro 2024), and the digital magazine from UNAM, Punto de partida, the Blog Libropolis, Letralia, La poesía Alcanza, etc.