song of our mothers
“each time they wanted to believe the rose had not yet fallen / from their hands only to find it laying on the wet floor waiting for / a man to pick it up again.”
Margarita Rosa is a Dominican-American writer born in Santiago, Dominican Republic and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey where she is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. IG: margaritalilarosa
“each time they wanted to believe the rose had not yet fallen / from their hands only to find it laying on the wet floor waiting for / a man to pick it up again.”