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Abel Salas is a poet, social activist and founder of the literary magazine Brooklyn and Boyle. In 2010 he participated in the Flor y Canto Literary festival at the University of Southern California where he read a poem dedicated to his friend and mentor, Juan Felipe Herrera. President Obama named Herrera the poet laureate of the United States in 2015. Here is Abel’s poem which, like the work of his mentor Juan Felipe Herrera, is bilingual.