At 18, this L.A. high school poet often makes audiences go silent
The times they are a changin’. Esmeralda Bermudez for the Los Angeles Times reports on a teenage poet from Guatemala. Vanessa Tahay at 18, is considered among the best poets in the city. The high school senior has performed and competed not just in Los Angeles but in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Tahay told the story of her journey to the United States in “A Dream in Five Days.”
Sitting on the desert
Dying for a drop of water
It’s not fun thinking about your family
About everyone you left behind
No beauty so close to bones
In less than one week
Maybe someone will stare at my skeleton the same way
KJ
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