The Echo of Julia in Marie Court's Brushes

The sister of the famous poet Julia de Burgos told this editor, as if she were standing in front of a pile of dead leaves, that she should be remembered adorning the dead children of the baquinés (a traditional festival) that were held in the El Monte neighborhood of Río Piedras, running along the train tracks to grab the canes and suck them, or simply improvising poems for her sister Consuelo, a perennial friend and critic, who, upon returning …