Bloody Half-Birth & An Afternoon Reparenting On An Empty Playground
This freedom used to elude me, /
but now, a smile untangles /
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On Prospect Avenue*
Javi recognized that life was a crapshoot, and that was just the way it was.
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Here’s to La Familia, Fuego Dancers, & Hacia la Luz
Here’s to the Chicanos /
The Mexicanos /
Our Indigenous ancestors /
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Memories of a Mexican Boy from El Paso: So You Want to Be a Pharmacist
Many young Chicanos were actively protesting what was happening to Mexicans in the Southwest and California, and I began to learn more about my Mexican heritage.
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Aquí también…
two poets met by chance /
during the librarian’s /
sojourn in Tejas. /
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Yá hmi ma ‘yu̲*
At times, only sometimes /
in the brightness of the moon /
the eyes of the leaves /
signal the course of things /
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Desahogar & A Mother’s Plea
Give me language that can inhabit dreams /
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Elegía por mi español & Rasquache, Defined & Declared
Rasquachismo is us, and we are rasquachismo. /
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chubasquero
in Spanish i am informed she no habla inglés.
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Becoming American, volverse americana
To write “I am” as an act of creation
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An Intergenerational Journey Through Food Insecurity*
Lately, food is a line-item ballooning and squeezing itself between the gaps of the other rising expenses even when my husband has regular work.
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