"ni una màs"

a girlhood moment

lost in ciudad juàrez

long before the city

 was known for its

 murdered women

 and pink crosses

Additional links:

Esther Chàvez Cano

Women on the Border

For Lucia Pamela:

up an ozark 
mountain staircase
if it weren't for the pine trees
these rock strewn jumbles
could be moonscape

"As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone."

" —Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris"

Ovid, Metamorphoses

missed exit

on a cloverleaf

interchange

I go around

one more time

for good luck

piano keys
made of sandstone
not one sour note
from the pickle springs
waterfall

in a small
patch of sunlight
everything we have to say
fits between
sips of tea

even though she knows
they won't last
the graffiti artist*
flowers her world
with bubbles


*Grant's Trail

in a closed section
of the black madonna shrine
I meet an armadillo
on a pilgrimage
to find some food

it could be from anywhere
this speckled fragment
of berlin wall
that somehow reminds me
of gaza

http://www.freegaza.org/

what began
as a warm day
for the president's arrival
ends with
a tornado watch

no one taking
the canton ferry
because of the ice
one eagle waits
for the other's return

A brief history:

http://www.greatriverroad.com/secondarypages/ferries.htm

(Canton Ferry is the last one listed on the page.)