Decompose

by | Jul 24, 2024

Orange fungus growing on a fallen bark. “Witches’ Butter” (2022), Yazlin Juarez. Courtesy of the author.

Al fin del día
vuelvo a mi tierra
y como tu cuerpo
como la seta

Aquí descansamos
en el suelo del bosque
consumiendo cuentas
en la media noche

I eat you
and you eat me
This is how I spend
my eternity

You eat me
and I eat you
We wake into amber
and sprout something new
Yazlin Juarez

Yazlin Juarez

Publab Fellow 2024

Yazlin Juarez is a writer and artist from Pico Rivera with a bachelors in literature from UC Santa Cruz. She takes every opportunity to forge spoken word poetry, photography, and design into instruments of social change. Yazlin discovered her love of theater through the Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center, where she developed student productions as the director of Poet’s Corner. She is published with the Red Wheelbarrow Anthology and TWANAS Press and continues to capture her history from a queer Chicana lens. Yazlin now proudly serves as a marketing associate for the Latino Theater Company in Los Angeles. Find her on Instagram here.