2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
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war came. war went<br />
by Joseph Delgado<br />
war came. war went<br />
like grandmother's cigarette<br />
smoke through the screen door<br />
there she whittles bone and wood<br />
praying for rain, praying for the snakes<br />
to stop hissing her name from the<br />
bunch grass or under the old chevy<br />
that never got fixed<br />
she whispers names long since forgotten milagros<br />
dios santo nino san ysidro<br />
she twists her tongue in psalms and<br />
bends her back over the wash, sheets<br />
sweat stained, a drop of blood<br />
like a peach from the branch<br />
hangs from the cloth, that<br />
smell of camphor and gauze<br />
that taste of piss in the air<br />
pulling grit and sand from teeth<br />
watching the wind waver through and over<br />
grass, watch as the sunlight traces my<br />
grandmother's face, watch as she eyes the<br />
ghosts sitting down by the acequeia, she tells me dont go mijo<br />
dont go<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Fe</strong> Literary Review 59