-the americas War in sun country Lights water with orphans. Braids sawed off. As if arms. Pray for snow, and thistle Blooms purple along Roads. Amaranth grows Beyond the harvest. * Morning sky: more meadow Than metal. A clear-eyed orphan With stars on her tongue, Hiding her siblings In the sun glow. A soldier knows […]
Sunlight on my eyes, the dead among my feet. The sacks of beans, the pumpkins piled in the shed. Even the mice speak of keeping in this time of grief. A ditch like a dried-up lake. Cobs bleaching, teeth. And the shoveling. Will I recognize you —me—within the strata of this new gathering? In the […]
The pain in the rooster’s cry. My anguish, not his. He is pre-storm glimpsing electricity’s gypsum, positioning without knives. We all want to catch light, drink water without thinking about toads. At the call of thunder, spadefeet emerge from hibernation and enter the acequia’s bamboo ears. Without solstice would we fall? I want geography – […]
Cottonwood crosses planted in sun- cracked mud: Inca dove bones among olla shards. In this desert, trunks of fruit trees, crosses without names and all are washed white. Gypsum. Lime. Here, dirt is life, shaped into utensils and adobes – here, dirt holds seeds soaked with irrigated water, hoping to blossom. Here, when canal water […]
Emmy Pérez, author of Solstice (Swan Scythe Press, 2003), reads a few favorite lines of poetry by the late poet Andres Montoya from his book, the Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems.
Emmy Pérez, author of Solstice (Swan Scythe Press, 2003), talks about one of the most pleasurable aspects of writing for her.
Emmy Pérez, author of Solstice (Swan Scythe Press, 2003), offers some advice to young writers.