I am an old book
My pages dry and cracked
Brittle but not yet
Dust turning into
Ash to fertilize new
Trees that will tell
Future stories
I live in a Cabinet
Of Curiosities
Like the ones that birthed museums
No one notices me
Amongst the odd and aging
Even the ancients
Waiting to be repurposed
Odilia Galván Rodríguez
Odilia Galván Rodríguez, poet, writer, editor, activist, and publisher is the author of seven volumes of poetry. Her latest book, from FlowerSong Books, is The Color of Light ~ Poems to the Mexica and Orisha Energies, 2019. She is the co-editor, along with the late Francisco X. Alarcón, of the award-winning anthology Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, The University of Arizona Press, 2016. She has worked as the editor for several print magazines, such as Tricontinental Magazine in Havana, Cuba, and journals on line — Switchgrass Review, Cloud Women’s Quarterly Journal, and Anacua Literary Arts Journal.