Into the Forest and all the Way Through

by Cynthia Pelayo

Justice sometimes takes time, but it is possible.

and did not return, and has never been seen? Now those three children know the way of questions, and the emptiness of answers, and the disappointment that when the doorbell rings or when the phone vibrates in their hand it is never their mother

and if there’s anyone who could know how to spin a lie how to weave a web, hide a body, it would be someone who dances with the law

some friends open the doors to our exit