Juana Borrero was born in Havana in 1877 and died in Key West in 1896 at the age of nineteen. She was born into a family of intellectuals: her father and all her siblings wrote verses which were later compiled and published under the title Versos familiares.
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Intimate
You want to study the night of my spirit There, in the pit of my soul the place never reached by the clear sunlight of hope
But don’t ask me what sleeps beneath the veil of speechless shade; stop beside the abyss, and weep as if by the edge of a grave