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This question refers to the poetic passage from "La herencia de Coatlicue/The Coatlicue State: El secreto terrible y la rajadura" which begins, "She has this fear...". What does the author mean when she writes, "She has this fear that if she digs into herself she won't find anyone that when she gets 'there' she won't find her notches on the trees the birds will have eaten the crumbs She has this fear that she won't find the way back"? Where is "there," and why does she put the word "there" in quotation marks? What is the effect of the visual spaces between phrases?
The "there" in this passage refers to the ambiguous, mysterious, intangible, and hard-to-define place or...
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