Red Hot Salsa--Reading Journal

RED HOT SALSA: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States

Edited by Lori Marie Carlson

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the poetry in Red Hot Salsa by Lori Marie Carlson. It made me consider the importance of understanding and embracing multiculturalism in a world where technology, trade, industry, and economics are bringing people of various cultures face to face.

Man was not made to be alone

by Lori Satterwhite

Our lives, at the skeletal level, resemble
One another

Everyone’s life revolves around

Self-Identity
Family

Life experiences
Love
Language
Struggles

Victories

Add the eyes of experience,
The profile of family, and
The color of culture,


And individuality takes form.


But man was not made to be alone.*
It’s the mixing and mingling,
The cross-cultural flavoring
That seasons the vibrancy of life.

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*Genesis 2:18 "The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone...'"