Harbinger: A Journal of Art & Literature | 2018-2019

IN SANTA CRUZ
Sarah G. Huerta
I look down at the map
that cost me five euros
and about twice as many
blisters on my feet
caused by my shitty American sandals
on too uneven sidewalks.
A rough sketch of synagogues
of the past are highlighted
in white. They are all churches
and restaurants now, one
of the hundred Jews left in Sevilla
tells me in broken English.
I step through to the other side
of the curtain separating the single room
exhibit.
Is it even my place
to cry? A spiritualist
raised Catholic, imposing myself
in the remains of the Jewish Quarter,
a lighter way to say ghetto,
or quarantine, barely able
to read about the atrocities
my family’s church committed
through new stains dirtying my glasses.
poetry 7
I exit through a small hall,
the walls covered in mirrors,
and I walk until
I am facing ten of myself.