Two Poems By Mexican Poet Coral Bracho
2nd July
Two poems by Mexican poet Coral Bracho, Of Their Eyes Adorned with Crystal Sands and Touches Its Depths and Is Stirred Up, translated by Tom Boll with Katherine Pierpoint.
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She starved herself to death
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