In English my name means everybody’s name
in Spanish it means a long name, my name
it is like a big tree with lots of leaves
it is like the waves changing and changing
and like flowers because as years pass
many people will have my name
– Catherine Morales, age 14
From the WritersCorps book “My Name is To Grow” at Mission High School
Poem of the month: September 2009
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