Mireya Perez | Cordillera Oriental

         Cordillera Oriental

              Verdigris  lianas  spruce
             
              moss  olive  emerald

              willow  laurel  teal  eucalyptus
             
              lime  pine  grass  clovers  palms

              helechos  peacock  mint
           
              parrot  lettuce  cabbage  capers
       
                     sage   cypress
             
                               not

              vermillion   ochre   terra-cotta   sienna

                        my  Andes

 
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Mireya Perez-Bustillo, born in Colombia, raised in the Big Apple, writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in English and Spanish. Among her publications are La picara y la dama (editions Universal), Casos en la comunidad (Houghton Mifflin), and The Female Body (Greenwood Press). Associate Professor Emerita at The College of New Rochelle and Coordinator of the IRP Program at the New School, she has a Ph.D in Spanish Literature. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. BACK to EL DORADO (Floricanto Press, 2020) is her debut novel.