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Sophia Marie Giudici is a current English MA/PhD student at Catholic University, and an emerging poet and artist. She has been published in Latin@ Literatures, an online journal. Her first illustrated sonnet crown was published in October 2024 in Nexus, a journal on the Catholic intellectual tradition published by Loyola University Chicago’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage.
I am my bloodline’s American dream
a prophecy told for generations.
in the space between laughter and screams
the by-blown seed of an island nation.
I am the daughter of the (exiled) mother,
Lost with the native tongue she left behind,
Half-siblings born of her father’s other
Women, and with them, scars for me to find.
I did not mind the struggle that made her
Forget. But now I need those memories—
de la brega, de la lengua: I stir
The silence of the past like a warm breeze:
Humid, humble, filled with a groaning weight—
A past I own, unknown. Stubborn, I wait.
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