BIO
Kenia Romero currently resides in South Carolina, USA. Romero enjoys reading prose and poetry by minority writers, watching Mexican Golden Age of Cinema films, and painting in her spare time. Romero is a senior at South Carolina Governor for the Arts and Humanities.
On the Murder of El Alguacil Romero
for my uncle
Strings of chorizo strung
around his neck a rosary.
the gusts of vulture’s wings,
carry in the air the smell
of raw pork meat tanto dolor
flocks, a congregation
in the dirt-paved road,
messengers reincarnation
in their tongues. the bliss of a dark sky
craned down to watch the
his spectacle in the final acts
coordinated by a gang of gangly boys
jugando con las pistolas de sus padres
aimed at the man gullible enough
to believe people like them could repent
so easily. except it’s not.
and the alguacil truck witness and
bearer of more than
twenty bullets embedded to its skin
stains etched in the soil
of yerba buena and dandelions
don’t grow there anymore.