In a juniper and pinon forest in the South of New Mexico, I killed my first elk. There are no ways to describe it, except through poetry. This is the poem I wrote afterwards. Only a forest as sparse as this could be both broad and quiet enough to hear. Everything quiet except her eyesContinue reading “Settler Fantasies and Fences Part 3: Hunting”
Category Archives: Poems
Mangkhut and Maria
Mangkhut and Maria It was different this time. The wind was low like it was crawling Robert Tumaneg said in Luzon to a newspaper reporter. It shook the earth like an earthquake. Imagine wind, come to rob you of things fresh and powerful, like the metallic tang of a loved one after an adrenaline shot. Continue reading “Mangkhut and Maria”
Cat and Dog
A Settler Pandemic Poem Cat thinks a lot walks, each leg a separate stalking plan fat lizard-mouthed sits down takes in the situation on allergy-down silk stockings. So tiny and so huge. Is he bored because it is all so banal and he misses the world of the spirits? What platform does Cat use toContinue reading “Cat and Dog”
Casa Migrante
Casa Migrante
About a trip to Agua Prieta during the era of family separation at the border
Broke
Dad lays on his back on the floor tossing your doll,
up and down
the doll is heavy dark ceramic
black hair purple dress white apron
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Eliseo
Water cascades
from the blue glacial lakes
his eyes
looking skyward
into the traipse of volcanic ash
as the green dream
ends. …