My heart is

By Leticia Urieta

My heart is

the long black hair

of a horse’s tail 

flowing out the back of a padlocked trailer

flirting with the wind on the highway

beckoning anyone to see it waving

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Leticia Urieta is Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She works as a teaching artist in the Austin community. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chicon Street Poets, Lumina, The Offing, Kweli Journal, Electric Lit, and others. Her chapbook, The Monster is out now from LibroMobile Press and her hybrid collection, Las Criaturas is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.