Feliz Lucia Molina

Sep 12, 2024 | poets.org | Amanda Gorman |Joseph Rios |Feliz Lucia Molina

I love these lanterns not for their meaning But for the bright colors they still give when I close my eyes scenes from a strip mall childhood Grocery store errands in my Catholic school uniform Drive-thru’s at McDonalds with Christmas on the radio Nine-day novenas leading up to Simbang Gabi and afterward the long awaited Noche Buena with a shiny lechon in the center of a hall filled with a hungry diaspora when there used to be more rain in those Decembers I love these lanterns for other...