The Girlfriend of Sandro (Rara Avis)

Armed with her honeyed voice and the amulets she crafted in the intensity of the night, Camila traverses the mysteries of transgender love. At times she loves, at others she hates, desires and is desired, mixing sorrow and joy in each of the bodies upon which she spills herself. Once impregnated, she gives birth to carnivorous verses and docile plants that fill the balconies her high heels inhabit. A formidable creator of magic, we can only crane our necks from below to watch her bleed, burn, and laugh at the world.

Perhaps the memory of lost lovers is the least painful of all the offerings her writing gives us, there's also the mother rented to another family, the father's fatigue in his struggle against poverty, the lover's beloved, and the dead friends. At times we wish to shield her from some memories, but it would be like encapsulating a firefly, a flicker of the most delicate light before absolute darkness. A fragile being capturing the words that come to her through the open air of experience.

The reading heart that dares to journey through the wild beauty of "The Bride of Sandro" will not emerge unscathed. - Dolores Reyes

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