Ancestral Ambivalence - Aura Peredia Garcia
similarities in mustached uncle
who wears a corrosive olive beret,
a rifle is handed between
his prayers for peace
on scabbed knees
inside incensed homes
desperately seeking
tongues becoming
blue to spout piercing
lovely bullets,
itching
to cry, again,
when I abandon him
to balance space
between skin and blood
Aura Peredia Garcia is a fourth-year English major at Fresno State studying creative writing. She writes about memory, longing, and concepts of identity as a trans Chicanx woman. Her work has been published in Flies, Cockroaches, and Poets, and she is currently working on her novella, Azul's Film.
