Liliana Correa reading ‘Cuerpos’

Voluptuous cicatrices
Cut into the rocks
Of the women’s bath
Appearing on a summer’s day 

My body
Amongst others
Time suspended 

I follow the sound
Of a voice
Facing the ocean
Aged worrier
Saluting the sun 

Like a child playing
With an imaginary friend
Taichiing the winds 

To the untrained eye
She is just another crazy one!
Stranded loca sirena
Her face illuminated
With salty fairy dust 

Bodies
Líquidos, sólidos
All shapes and sizes
Aroused or dormant
Full, scarred or small
Breasts of life and desire
Melting on rocks
Hips and torsos 

Yemanya is colling
I let my body take me
To the edge of the pool
And let go
I am in and within
I am inside and outside 

Blessed I float
Eyes opening to the clouds
I think of Alfonsina
Dejándose ir
No pain or sorrow
Just a body on another 

Cuerpo sobre cuerpo
Soy mar.

Liliana Correa is a writer, adult educator, and cultural researcher. In 2012 she was granted a Doctorate of Cultural Research from Western Sydney University. Her thesis, titled The Politics of Cultural Visibility: Latin American Arts Practices in Sydney, utilised empirical research grounded in theoretical and creative methodologies. She started diarising at the age of 12 and, since arriving in Australia over thirty years ago, she began incorporating images and bilingual text into her writing. She is currently working on a collection of micro-stories and poetry under the title of poesía en construcción /poetry under construction.