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Boricua Butterfly

Mariposa Fernández

I am the
Met-morpho-sized
The reborn
The living phoenix
Rising up out of the ashes
With my conquered people
Not the lost Puerto Rican soul in search of identity
Not the tragic Nuyorican in search of the land of the palm tree
Not fragmented but whole
Not colonized
But free.

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Poems By Mariposa Fernandez
“Boricua Butterfly” originally appeared in Drum Voices Revue: Special Issue: Words from 15 Cities: Poetic Voices of Contemporary Urban Cultures, edited by Raymond Patterson & Willie Perdomo (published by English Department of Southern Illinois & EBR Writers Club), Vol. 9, Nos. 1 & 2, 2000 and has been anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, edited by Ilan Stavans. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011.
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