to hunker, to bend down, to kneel. to heart howl: to surrender and to allow ( Read more... )

they made me sit still,
legged like an indian,
and watch beer bottles
and car tires congregate
between the bay of your thighs.

listen to my mom
recollect the two decades
she spent trying to
live, grow, and die with those faults.
understand why she left you.

ask your cliff divers
if they used my mother's heart
as their Quebrada.
ask why she still lets them plunge
upwards into her tear ducts.

engrave your Nauhatl name
in my bones - tiny, like on a grain of rice.
pretend you have always been a part of me
so when asked if I know the language, i can
just show my teeth and never have to speak.

Sit still on my skin
like sand, sand, sand.

Momma wants to give ( Read more... )