Like the love of an onion
bee stung
through
tears
one at a time
puncture my heart
and your laugh oblivious to
what my back carries
echoes through
pumping life to my
numb soul
About Me
- Viva Liz Vega!
- Liz Vega works in education and is an avid supporter of the arts. When she is not juggling students or her three daughters, she is immersed in poetry, prose, or film. She was born and raised in East L.A., but in typical Mexican migratory fashion she moved back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico while growing up. Her formal education was marked by independent-minded nuns in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, bilingual classrooms in East Los Angeles, the sink or swim methods of a New England preppy boarding high school, and finally Cornell University, where she earned a degree in Human Development and Family Studies with a concentration in gerontology. Liz is currently putting her degree and concentration to good use as she is sandwiched between the needs of her aging parents and raising a family.