Plantains and Our Becoming Quotes

“mashing plátanos:

coddle them with praying hands
remember they were born //hanging//
not like fruit but like bodies dragged
into boats & shipped like cargo
propped crates, bonded limbs
groups of 5 or 10 standing upright
fresh for sale.”
― Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

“Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same mother.”
― Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

“Abuela asks, what do you do when you're depressed? I say, fill myself with water I drink but can't keep from leaking.”
― Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems