by Mireya Perez-Bustillo
On this hill Golgotha
where it happened
They call it Church of the Holy Sepulchre
a sacred site closely guarded
The moment came to be at the very spot
even to touch it in a hole for my arm
But there were two lines side by side
I was asked to choose
which was the true spot
The eastern Orthodox one or
the Western Christian one
The split so clear
even on Golgotha
Mireya Perez-Bustillo’s poetry and prose in English and Spanish appears in Caribbean Review, The Mom Egg, The Poetry Table Book: Anthology 2000-20024 among others. Her Latina coming-of-age novel, Back to El Dorado (Floricanto Press), is available on Barnes and Noble and Amazon sites.