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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHICANOS Matches Found: 509 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAPELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ms. Steiger said, write about who you are. Last Line: I am singing out Subject(s): Chicanos; Identity; Self; Mexican Americans A CHILD, A CHILD, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You held your breath Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans A.D., by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The new dimension is a throat surviving the cost of stepping into the new Last Line: Your lowered head healing and letting the horns lead the way into the rocks Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AFTER EFFECTS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: So there are tickets %I have grown as flowers Last Line: I give it a second chance at love Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AGAINST THE RUNNING WHITE MEADOW OF HANDS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Escaping his nourished frame Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AGIO NERO, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finding a spring, a holy act Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans AGIO NERO, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finding a spring, a holy act Last Line: Holy, holy, holy Subject(s): Chicanos AGUA NEGRA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her shadow Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans AGUA NEGRA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her shadow Last Line: What falls from the sky Subject(s): Chicanos AGUACATE EYES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He saw her standing in the doorway and he recalled the green light in his Last Line: His eyes to a new smell of green, cut aguacate that filled the room with things %he wanted to taste Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ALL I SAW WAS THE RIVER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Water opened my eyes and water fed me until I cried Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ALL RIVERS ROTATE AGAINST THE DARKNESS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ALL THAT PASSES FOR HIM, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: The belly of a church is lit Last Line: Then a cross stings like a whip Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families ALWAYS CLOSE TO DEATH ON SECOND ST., by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: There's no way to escape knowledge of mortality Last Line: Always close to death on second st. Subject(s): Chicanos ALWAYS WHEN I THINK OF THE COTTONWOOD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The arrival of speech, nothing else I need Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ANOTHER BROWN MAN, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Startling as blood Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans ANOTHER BROWN MAN, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Startling as blood Last Line: Only a shadow %like yours Subject(s): Chicanos ANOTHER HEADLINE: HISPANICS URGED TO HOLD ONTO POLITICAL GAINS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: This is the one we are looking for. The summer before the '96 election and Last Line: The hispanic gain. The hispanic pain. The chicano tortuga party Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By an alley lined with tumble-down shacks Last Line: "are mud walls in a waste of sand." Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans AS IF SOME BIRD WAS RECOGNIZED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Survives the battle %without flying away Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AS IF THE MONSTER IN THE PHOTO WAS ALIEN AND NO ONE HAD TO BELIEVE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: A perfect son who would always pray and be loyal and know when to leap off the toilet Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AT THE TOP OF CONSCIENCE IS A VOID, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Waiting for this nightmare to finally end Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ATCALE, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Taking the trade windows as its route Last Line: Of rivers darkened in the ink of new maps Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families AURELIA: MOON JELLIES, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without brain or eye or heart Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans AURELIA: MOON JELLIES, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without brain or eye or heart Last Line: Depths where we begin Subject(s): Chicanos BACK IN THE ROOM THE DRAPED WOMAN DESIGNS YOUR FATE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Back in the room the silence turns to magic Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BACKYARD, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Her son watches from his window Last Line: The green that feeds on the underside of moist stones %thickens the air Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families BALLENA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you terrified of drowning Last Line: Where it can't breathe Subject(s): Chicanos BASKETS OF STARTLED HANDS, BROKEN ELBOWS RAISING THEIR ENERGY TO THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When the earthquake passes beyond their lives and becomes something else in %the history of loss Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BENT OVER THE BORDER, THE SHAMAN STEALS THE MOON, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The horizon with a silent scream that does nothing Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BIOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When we move, the glands in the throat originate a liquid that is richer than Last Line: To greet whatever %his fingertips %touched Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BIRTHDAY PARTY, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: In the morning he went to the market Last Line: Swooping up whatever glittered Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families BLACK JALAPENOS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The passion of speech becomes the stem at the end of the bite when the black Last Line: Hot mouth, the stirring water that glistens in the black glasses of quenching thirst Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BLACKFOOT FLUTE MAN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: His face, painted red, streaks tears into white lines transforming color, mov Last Line: The second instrument invented across the rolling hills Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BODY OF ALL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The body of all - a frozen pair of scissors - a withered blackberry bush, the Last Line: Latina, hispanic, chicana or other.' Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BORDER EXCLUSION, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: For the hungry and the dead Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BORDER PATROL AGENT RIPPED HER DRESS OFF AND FUCKED HER FROM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Shiny brown ass quivered and leaped as their partner showed them how to do it with glee Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BORDER TOWN: 1938, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She counts cement tracks Subject(s): Schools; Chicanos; Segregation; Students; Mexican Americans BORDER WAS CLOSED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BOUGAINVILLEA ASKS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Again, %why do you kiss your wife, turning to one side Last Line: What you must do? Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families BOY HAD SEEN THE TRAFFIC IN THE DISTANCE. HE KNEW IT WAS COMING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Knew it. He could feel it moving under the ground. He waited for it to emerge Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BOY WHO TOLD STORIES BURNED HIS TOAST EVERY MORNING. HIS MOTHER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His mother's hair stuck on a nice, thick line of butter. After that day, he never ate burned toast a Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BRAIDED, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, rattle of shells Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans BRAIDED, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, rattle of shells Last Line: Echoes rippling through currents, crossing, crisscrossing Subject(s): Chicanos BROKEN OVAL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He looked up toward heaven without knowing what he was looking for. He Last Line: Of his ear as if it was nothing. Broken oval. What he never told his son Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BROKEN RHYTHMS; IN A MEXICAN LABOR CAMP, by AMANDA MATHEWS CHASE Poem Text First Line: La golondrina Last Line: New music? Subject(s): Chicanos; Migrant Labor; Music & Musicians; Mexican Americans; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers BROKEN STICK, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When grace was a rattle a stick Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BURNED TORTILLA TEXT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Belinda cooked the tortillas and saw several faces on them that day. She Last Line: Smell of fresh beans and more tortillas pulling belinda away from the sight Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BURYING THE TOAD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: It came out from under the root of the old cottonwood, a fat yellow toad with Last Line: Me as it trembled and died Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CACTUS, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: November sunshine floods my kitchen window Last Line: I eat nopalitos every morning with my breakfast Subject(s): Chicanos CANADA IN ENGLISH, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Tinko says canada Last Line: Skulls – are for us Subject(s): Language; Chicanos; Words; Vocabulary; Mexican Americans CARLOS DE OXNARD, by JAVIER BARNES PACHECO Poem Source First Line: And now, %three years in the making Last Line: Coming soon to a teatro near you! Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families CARVED GOD DID NOT BELIEVE IN PEACE. HE SHOOK HIMSELF. IT WAS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: It was something hard for him to accept. He stepped out into the street and %headed toward the river Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CASKETS THONGS SLIPPERS T-SHIRTS SHIELDS FLOWERS CANDLES WAX FROM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Pedes a fat cardinal nickels dimes postage stamps Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CAST OF MOTION OUT OF THE VESPER DANGLING DOWN TOWARD THE VINE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Frying lying dying defying devouring what enables him to speak Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CAUGHT WITH FLOWERS IN MY HAND, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Settling down into the valley to wait for the rock carving to sing Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CHAPARRAL SUPER, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: We sit in the parking lot with tecate & carnitas Last Line: In a supermarket parking lot %on a saturday afternoon Subject(s): Chicanos CHARGED-UP APRICOT TREE, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: The overripe fruit taps the ground Last Line: A decaying sheet of music on the ground? Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families CHE GUEVARA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When they cut off his hands to prove it was really him, the soldiers heard the Last Line: Big x drawn across his face, the outline of two hands traced in pen under the beard Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CHILD, A CHILD, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You held your breath Last Line: At long last, let the celebration begin Subject(s): Chicanos COATLICUE'S RULES: ADVICE FROM AN AZTEC GODDESS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rule 1: beware of offers to make you famous Subject(s): Chicanos; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women In The Bible; Mexican Americans; Virgin Mary COATLICUE'S RULES: ADVICE FROM AN AZTEC GODDESS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rule 1: beware of offers to make you famous Last Line: Rule 9: be selective about what you swallow Subject(s): Chicanos; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible COCORIMA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The first street belongs to you Last Line: Cocorima insisting the captured ear belongs to the fields of corn Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles COME CLOSER. YOU ARE A DENSE FABRIC. YOU BELONG WITH ME BECAUSE I AM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Perhaps, those are the only words that need to hear the oral rope of calibers %and energetic confusi Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CONSEJOS DE NUESTRA SENORA DE GUADALUPE: COUNSEL FROM VIRGIN, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You seem surprised that I've appeared Last Line: Immaculate and otherwise, happen. He knelt, full of me Subject(s): Chicanos; Goddesses & Gods; Mexican Americans CONSEJOS DE NUESTRA SENORA DE GUADALUPE: COUNSEL FROM VIRGIN, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You seem surprised that I've appeared Last Line: Como la luna esplendida Subject(s): Chicanos CORAZON DEL CORRIDO, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: En la frontera de tejas Last Line: Ay, papa! Te cantaremos Subject(s): Chicanos CREATION WAS A WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T COME NEAR ME. I LOVE TO DRAW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To the world, yet the world refuses to see you because it does not acknowledge walls Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jose hears colors. Last Line: Oye verde, oye azul Subject(s): Chicanos CUENTISTA: STORY-TELLER, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She carries a green river in her arms Last Line: And sip--from her own arms. %una vez: once Subject(s): Chicanos CUIDADO, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humans should smell like this Last Line: Saying, ven. Smell. Smell Subject(s): Chicanos DARK BROTHER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Smoking paper cloth reappearing with the image of christ burnt and woven Last Line: And his brother are the same Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DEAR FRIDA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're stuck on you, on thorns you press Last Line: Hair, your hair, around your face, crackles, blazes Subject(s): Chicanos DEBBY, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Debby is a russian novel Last Line: But impossible to ignore Subject(s): Chicanos DEPRESSION, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Is like a door closing Last Line: Day after day %waiting to die Subject(s): Chicanos DEPRESSION DAYS (1), by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He buys the dark Subject(s): Chicanos; Depressions, Economic; Mexican Americans DEPRESSION DAYS (1), by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He buys the dark Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and names and skin Subject(s): Chicanos DESCENT INTO BOCA DEL LAGARTO, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With trust we enter its gaping mouth, black Last Line: Eyes open to this mundo caprichoso Subject(s): Chicanos DESERT MOCKINGBIRD, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even on sunday Last Line: And just let the sounds slide up %and out Subject(s): Chicanos DIAPERS: 1. RAID, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Ernesto's boot heels are wild hooves Last Line: Chorus: chingado! Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families DIAPERS: 2. A GIRL AND HER FATHER, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: We were driving through town, mama Last Line: We won't go that way again, that's for sure Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families DIAPERS: 3. THE FACTORY, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Two of the old-timers talked about unions Last Line: Solo trae la migra de nuevo' Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families DIAPERS: 4. A YOUNG MOTHER, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Can you imagine how many diapers Last Line: It's even good for the environment Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families DIAPERS: 5. JEFE, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: No son gallinas Last Line: Chorus: chingado! Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families DIEGO RETURNS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Diego returns and paints turtles on his cheeks, one tiny green one on each fat Last Line: Like himself any longer Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DOMINGO'S STORY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: We lived in the fourth house by the river. It was hot most of the year, but Last Line: Always had to watch what I did, so she would be happy and want to be with me Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DON'T TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE DOING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Reminds us we are already electric and drowning Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DONA FELICIANA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ven. Come inside. Es mi casa Last Line: I hung my blue tin pot beside my door Subject(s): Chicanos DREAM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Two men and I stumbled through the vines of the jungle and came to the great Last Line: Bright suns across the deep valley floor Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DRIVING SOUTH PAST ALBURQUERQUE THROUGH SIXTY MILES OF FOG, THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When I believed the highway home was pure exhaustion, each road a scar over my left shoulder Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves Last Line: A zone of no %destruction Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women EARTHWORMS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I knew the earthworms when I was ill Last Line: And tried to get away from the man coming through Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles EAST SAN JOSE, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: I love cruising down king road Last Line: & feeling this pride %in what I am Subject(s): Chicanos EL ADAN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the shadow of the lizards Last Line: Stop singer. Call him, he's waiting with your ticket, too Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL AGUILA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye warriors, all ye poets of el norte Last Line: Will you be the eagle, the cacti or the hiss? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL ALACRAN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woke up this morning, had my fried mangos Last Line: With his shelled back reminiscent of my punk childhood %my tender disintegrations Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL ANGEL DE LA GUARDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have visited more often Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL ANGEL DE LA GUARDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have visited more often Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans EL ANGEL DE LA GUARDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have visited more often Last Line: I should have touched them Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL ARBOL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was your aged apprentice -- many years Last Line: Drilling up to my ten thousand kisses Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL ARCANGEL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I arrived -- you called Last Line: You just spittin' beans Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL ARMADILLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the blues-master, mathematician Last Line: My art, my sad-song suit of centuries Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL AUSENTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say I've been under the weather. Yeah Last Line: For the rhythms, the solar razor winds Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL AVESTRUZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take me to the taj -- there I will roam Last Line: The ones about our happiness, our long-necked %dances. Go now, little one. Go Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL AVION, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies & gentlemen. You, in the altar Last Line: We shall land there in that meager swallow-pool Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL BANO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone. Inside the steel cage Last Line: All the songs live, all the lives Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL BRUJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, I ring the corn, sing Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans EL BRUJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, I ring the corn, sing Last Line: Who thirsts? Here is the water %the crown-spirit you called for Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CABALLERO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please, sir below, did you know Last Line: Thinking about rising up, about speaking? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CABALLITO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idea falters. No idea. Falters Last Line: No idea. Drink, ride, strip your shirt Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CABALLO DE CORTES, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: His flagship hoists its flags Last Line: The mountains and sunset Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families EL CAMELLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey you, hey %travel hump, time-fur thinker Last Line: To take it by foot or by hoof Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CANGREJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shoo-bop, sweetheart! Last Line: Play these violins to the green jazz piers Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CAZADOR, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, there was an elephant Last Line: Which way? Which direction, which? %lawyer said, stop Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CIELO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dome of triangles and slaughtered warriors Last Line: All this opens as I taste patchouli on your knees Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CIRCO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From yin to fullness, a guffaw at the pit Last Line: Call it joy, call it she-hair %this negative of all negatives Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL COLGADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you about it Last Line: It was the light, say it was the dawn Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL COMETA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is said, when the star of rumi burns azul Last Line: All our eyes will explode all the eyes -- in praise Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CORAZON, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In veracruz, where the light is colonial Last Line: These romantic nails, arrowmatic expectations Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL CUCHILLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my midnight erotica. When Last Line: Give it the last word, wrap it in steel Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL DANZANTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ate my frijoles after the night-stomp, in chalma Last Line: This coiled & flat devoured love Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL DIABLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear was expected to wash down by the rivers Last Line: You? So, it grew up, on its own, this brooding %orphan in our garden Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL DIOS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey corazonsito %I am back from the races. Been a long time, huh? Last Line: I am short on change, put it that way, okay? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL ERMITANO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arch of capitalism, or rather Last Line: My heart is accustomed. The song is different %the song is rebellious Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL FERROCARRIL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the revolution, we waited by the ceiba tree Last Line: The mountains of the south in despair Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL FRUTO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The apple wasn't our true origin Last Line: It was king executive, demi-god of the new business Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL FUEGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've prayed to her so many times Last Line: Form blows out of her belly,. My true night Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans EL FUEGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've prayed to her so many times Last Line: From blows out of her belly. My true night Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL GALLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream again Last Line: All along in this seamless wicked night Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL GATO, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At eight Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans EL GATO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't think this is the way it is Last Line: Behind the curtains, the way the dream falls %from the owner's head -- to my plate Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL GIGANTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So he's listened to you for centuries, yes Last Line: This hatchwork of reddish men and bluish dogs Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL GLOTON, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meet el gloton, mr. Eat-it-now-fried Last Line: He wants sugar-milk now -- as the worlds dissipate %shoot eons into the void Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL HERIDO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mighty antonio went to the usual nite-spot Last Line: Of the void, the nebula denying itself %the wound, yes, the wound Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL HIJO PRODIGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was lost. I was cast as an exile Last Line: I returned to a stranger. I was that stranger Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL INFIERNO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am boppin' at the under-club Last Line: Entrails, erotic, concentric, electric Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL INSPIRADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For light years, in green-bulb bedrooms Last Line: My hands so busy with emptiness & blur Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL JOROBADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Been living on the outskirts Last Line: This is the hunger I bury, I said Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL LEON, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king is dead %the children sing Last Line: My clawing feet, on their heads Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL LUCHADOR, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us call him weeping, mr. Llanto Last Line: Now will you crawl %out of the mouse hole? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL MAGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You take the sword, the poblano of oaxaca Last Line: You sweat out the sweetness, the all -- yours Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL MAIZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the speaker Last Line: And voice your bones in my infinity light Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans EL MAIZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the speaker Last Line: And voice your bones in my infinity light Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL MAL GOBIERNO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Pulpo, dr. Blue goya of tank sauce and fury Last Line: Comes alive in the teeth that smile and burn Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL MOJADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sour races, the time-quilted feet Last Line: You want to run with me, esta noche? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL MONO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guitarra. Guitarra. Six strings Last Line: My gaze through mountains or flesh Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL MUNDO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say sweetheart %wazzup wit the world on your cranky back? Last Line: Without you there is no path, no place to live it out? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL MURCIELAGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upside down heaven-kid, be the blood Last Line: In between, the register of sparkles Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL NOPAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head swims in the aftertaste Last Line: My dad jacket applauds your kisses %your runaway flowers Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL OBRERO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream number one: chiapas goes free in the green Last Line: Dream number ten: a las cinco de la tarde Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL PAYASO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sixties album face, in my paisley Last Line: Pluck my bones and receive my smiles in neon Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL PECESITO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High above the levels of the crown Last Line: Above, see its headlong collapse Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL PERRO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dreams %I smooch the basilica Last Line: This road, its venom Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL RIO GRANDE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe la llorona is el rio grande Subject(s): Chicanos; Rio Grande River; Mexican Americans EL RIO GRANDE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe la llorona is el rio grande Last Line: Like the morning star Subject(s): Chicanos EL SOL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So dance with me Last Line: So many destructions left alone without light Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL SOLDADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never been so hongry. So many bodies in Last Line: The lost fires. My hunger without a mouth Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL VENADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mountains of nayarit, I am the advisor Last Line: Sing of petroleum and skins hanging Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL VIEJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I survive, that is all. Tobacco, copper lips Last Line: That is all, a nasty shift of upside-down %pianos, faces and eyes Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL VUELO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close your eyes, now -- we go Last Line: To a silvery hand ahead %the feminine dome Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) EL ZAPATISTA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the zapatista, this lacandon Last Line: Of ammo, your halo made with our mud Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) ELECTRIC EYE OF TRANSFORMATION, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: If the season when I finally got up and ran Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ELENA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spanish isn't enough Last Line: When my children need my help Subject(s): Chicanos; Children; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations EVENING, by TILLIE BURCH Poem Text First Line: It is evening time, and don juan pacheco Last Line: And now over all gleams the bright evening star. Subject(s): Chicanos; Evening; Mexican Americans; Sunset; Twilight EVERY NIGHT HE STARES AT THE CROSSES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Crying brightly on both sides of the bed Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FACE I SAW WHEN I WAS LEFT ALONE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: One streetlight burned two thousand years before its invention Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FE TZOTZIL, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Safe in her turquoise rebozo Last Line: Entre sombras de ceniza Subject(s): Chicanos FEEDING THE WINDS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stories pass like genes through families Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans FEEDING THE WINDS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stories pass like genes through families Last Line: To grandchildren now asleep in his words Subject(s): Chicanos FIELDS HAVE HIDDEN SECRETS AMONG THE ROWS OF CORN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The fields have nests hidden among the grapes Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FIFTY-THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YARD. IT IS COSTING FTFTY-THOUSAND, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Up to it and touch the solid steel black bars. Solid border Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FINAL SOLUTION: JOBS, LEAVING, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They would leave Last Line: The women were so angry Subject(s): Migrant Labor; Chicanos; Farewell; Labor & Laborers FINALLY GETTING TO THE POINT OF HAVING TO DEFINE WHAT IT IS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The continent has not been notified of the galaxy Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FIRST DAY THEY SEARCHED FOR A MAILBOX, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Reading 'letter,' thinking carta, she dropped hers Last Line: The one she kneeled under before leaving leon Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families FIVE ASKINGS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: It was a place where lizards stepped on waxen ground and trees grew tortillas Last Line: Size of my head changed and I woke up healthy as a crow Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FLAMENCA DUENDE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Not just any hot latin blood, but the fiery Last Line: From the molten center of the earth - dancing, %that gold earring dancing till it too burns Subject(s): Chicanos; Dancing And Dancers; Ranch Life FRAME FOR A TIRED PAINTING: 1, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Asking for the relief of a spinal dance Last Line: Manners. %hands. %signs. %limits Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FRAME FOR A TIRED PAINTING: 2, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Read this: %I was alone when I woke and the truth had already started pouring Last Line: The passage where it disappeared Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FRIJOLE ARCHIVE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I try to think of history Last Line: The amphibian has already crossed the stream Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FROG, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: You were my frog %a horny toad Last Line: That when I kissed you %a prince emerged? Subject(s): Chicanos FROM VIOLENCE TO PEACE, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-eight shotgun pellets Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Death; Chicanos; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The; Mexican Americans GABACHAS, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: They call us Last Line: They are so pretty Subject(s): Chicanos GATEKEEPERS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: A crow gliding over a ravine was Last Line: Those are ones I need to follow, he says Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families GENERAL ASSISTANCE IS AS LOW AS YOU CAN GET, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Like you've got nothing Last Line: Someday I'll write a poem about that Subject(s): Chicanos GET THE FETISH TO DO SOMETHING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Get it to arrive with the correct message Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GHOST OF HIS FATHER BELIEVES IN COMING BACK WITH GIFTS. THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Would never harm each other Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GHOST OF SAL, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: One off-line headlight notices Last Line: He doesn't care about anyone's desires Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families GOLOXINA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The great man with long hair and red bandanna knew what we wanted Last Line: Had always been longer than the hair of the great man Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GRAFFITI CLAWS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: They found the painted walls and doors and cars and streets and did not know Last Line: Light to a neighborhood that always gave in to the darkness of unpredictable brief weather Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GRANDMA TAUGHT ME TO RESPECT YOU, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: You had a cricket's body Last Line: Like my grandma's voice Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families GRAY, ALLOW ME. BLUE, TAKE THE LONG HAIR FROM MY WISH. WHEN THE SONG, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Past can have a garden to dry its itching pollen, a place torn out of the thick %grass that has no b Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GROCERY STORES, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: He hid in the public library, reading Last Line: His mother made from hand-me-downs Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families HABITATION, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Small day lying down on the floor Last Line: The breath headed for the belly without the stomach for silence Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE CAME BACK TO ASK FOR MORE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He came back to speak Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE CONVINCES THE MOJADOS TO CROSS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To keep it beating and tame Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE EXISTS FOR MERCY AND THE VOWEL OF THE TURTLES. HE HAS TRAVELED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Because it is the water that brings hosts and sounds and the strength to go on Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE IMAGINED WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO MOVE UNDER THE BLANKET AND FIND THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: See how they changed when the morning light came and dried his paint into hard profiles Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE SAYS HIS KNEES ARE FUELED BY WONDERFUL FIREFLIES AND HE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His brain dives into the flower Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE SAYS, 'THE ORIGIN OF WATER IS THE ORIGIN OF THE CLAWED MIND.', by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE STARTED PLAYING THE MUD ON HIS FINGERS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He sat down and bowed his head and gave in to the mud Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE STOOD UP TO THE OFFICER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: A single tv camera in sight Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE WAKES TO THE SHADOW OF THE TARANTULA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To make sure he would never forget Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE WROTE THIS UPON SEEING HOW THE WHITE TERRAIN GREW CLOSER TO HIS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Before water dried into patterns that spelled Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE'S GONE, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Awake to the cold chill %of his leaving at three a.M. Last Line: Before %he's gone Subject(s): Chicanos HER HOUSEHOLD, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Switching on the light in the garage Last Line: Slipping from its magnet's hold Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families HERITAGE MOMENT #1, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Rosa martinez, controller, los angeles, california: 'the latino heritage that Last Line: Out for the dog shit on the sidewalk!' Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HEY YOU!, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Love comes heavy Last Line: We weren't made for sad endings %you & I Subject(s): Chicanos HIDDEN IN THE MUSEUM, THE BOWLS OF THE FIRST PEOPLE SIT ON METAL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Appearing into the history of stone, dry blood the color of twelve thousand clay bowls Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIDDEN INSIDE THE WRIST OF A THIEF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Turtle ideas where the green surface of a cloud is the bestowed oven of the mind Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIDING UNDER A BUS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: His coyote led him through a corridor Last Line: Alla esta la frontera, alla esta Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families HIS FACE WAS COVERED BY SNOW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He waited for the first green buds and never left Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIS GUITAR, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He was strong and finished. He was available. He gave speeches and saw the Last Line: Wood and take their own shape Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIS LANGUAGE DEPARTS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He had to start somewhere Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HOLY GARCIA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Holy garcia stood on the edge of the desert and prayed that he was okay. He Last Line: The rows of young boys receiving their first holy communion in the crowded and silent church Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HOUSE IN EL MONTE, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: He was not surprised the ivy grew Last Line: Dejenos en paz. No tenemos nada' Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families I ALMOST CROSSED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: And let me drown on my own Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I AM OLDER THAN THE THORN AND THE COTTONWOODS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When I allowed them to return, I loved them Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I AM WALKING INSIDE A JOSEPH CORNELL BOX, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I am walking inside a joseph cornell box and the plastic dolls and watches Last Line: Receiver on the pay phone that has been ringing and ringing Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I DIDN'T LET YOU IN ON THE SECRET OF THE HEAT IN THE MATTRESS, THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: For the man who wished his morning of birth had been postponed for years Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I DREAM OF MEXICAN MURALS AND A COMMUNITY AFFAIR, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: It's not an easy place to live Last Line: Yet I walk away with nothing? Subject(s): Chicanos I ENTER THE WALLS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: West of my body Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I GO OUT BEYOND THE SAFEST LIGHT AND FILL MY STOMACH WITH THE LAST, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Alone on the table when the voices pushed me away Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I HAVE A NAME FOR MYSELF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Up there to brush syllables out of memory Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I HAVE TWO SISTERS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: When flavia goes on a date, I have to Last Line: To act like sisters at least for my sake Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families I HUDDLE THE IMPOSSIBLE RIVER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I huddle the impossible river and let go Last Line: I huddle the impossible lover who loved me and watched me grow old Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I LEARNED TO SHOUT ABOVE THE WALL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I followed myself out through a man size hole in the wall Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I LIVED THERE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I left before the river became a simple line in the dirt Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I NO LONGER WAIT FOR THE SUN. IT COMES UP ON ITS OWN. I FORGOT THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Have another year without sacrifice Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I PASS THROUGH TIME AND FOUNTAINS OF MADMEN FOLLOWING ME. THEY HAVE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Slower turtles, when all I have to do is leap and open my eyes Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I SAVED THE SACRED MOUNTAIN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When I was a boy Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I SPEAK TO THE VOICE THAT LEFT ME YEARS AGO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: And giving away what we have forgotten Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I SWAT THE FLY AND MISS. THERE ARE PONTIFICATIONS WE ARE SUPPOSED TO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: New swatter fluttering like a butterfly in his hands Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I THINK SOMEONE WILL TELL ME IT IS TIME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: By telling a story that has no ending Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I WAS HERE BEFORE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Back in the mountain star a child loves you and waits Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I WAS SURPRISED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I was the one who called and the one who never answered Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I WENT TO MEXICO, MI AMOR, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: To forget you Last Line: To forget you Subject(s): Chicanos I'M GOING BACK SOME NIGHT, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: To those second st. Apartments I gave so much of my life to Last Line: Able to sleep now without troubled dreams Subject(s): Chicanos IF I LIVED THERE, I REMEMBER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I found a way back Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ILLEGAL IN THE DESERT PASSAGE: JORNADO DEL MUERTO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Brown wings soar into the twilight above the canyon. They remove the magic Last Line: Settling before the morning sun can ignite the waterfall in curious light Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IMAGINED STARLIGHT IS THERE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: There are places to go where heaven has been Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IN THE GRIEF OF BROKEN EGGS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Men walk and stare at their feet Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IN THE MOMENT OF THE WINDOW, WE ARE REMINDED WE HAVE NOT STRAYED FAR, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Miles and streets and handclaps Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles INSIDE THE SYMBOL, THE BOY GAINS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Inside the window, there is time Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IT COULD HAVE ENDED AT THE EDGE OF THE CANYON, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: It could have unfolded into tiny wishes tempting the brain to grow %it kept silent instead Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IT MAY BE DANGEROUS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound. The child watches us Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans IT MAY BE DANGEROUS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound. The child watches us Last Line: Holding a mouth in my hand. There is no sound Subject(s): Chicanos IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE TREES I NOTICED ONE DAY WHEN I STEPPED OUT OF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Not recalled in the millions of moments when I hated everyone around me Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IT WAS IMAGINATION FORESTED IN A CUP OF ONIONS CRYING TO SING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Basking in the thumb gift of exported fire spelling its own name Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles JALAPENO PLANT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Is the man whose tongue burned with the truth long ago Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles JANUARY IN CINCINNATI, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I unlock a cold house Last Line: And laugh, lips round, red tongues loud in the sun Subject(s): Chicanos JOSE LUIS, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Certainly not worth a poem Last Line: You really aren't worth a poem Subject(s): Chicanos JUAN OF WANDS BELONGS TO AMERICA. HE IS THE NEXT BOY WHO WILL GAIN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Because he knows, someday, the stick will not be enough Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles JUST IN TIME TO SEE THE SUN HIT THE RED PEAKS OF THE SANGRE DE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Sadness, a fast mourning toward what will never be. Celebrate, but don't ask Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles KILLER BEES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Everything is composed of unwanted fire like the young boy killed by the Last Line: Where we swell up and don't even scream Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles KISS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: As you spoke, a cricket sang Last Line: With its fluttering wings Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families LA BANDERA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So %they fight over you Last Line: This aroma of storms Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA BICICLETA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were going to the park Last Line: Losing us, in one rocking second Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA BOTELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 100 proof mata perro, street-kill dog Last Line: With its deep-cupped crazy tongue Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA CABRA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goat is my favorite. In jive beard Last Line: Ripping its heart out. For the moment %chew on some of this Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA CAIDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man is just beginning. He is at the tip Last Line: Where I am going, he says. At last I know Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA CAMPINA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say bay, so I got a job. Yeah Last Line: The grimace inside this building. Listen up Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA CANOA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late, time to leave. To let go Last Line: I am not who I am either. It is time %to leave. It is late Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA DULCERIA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Released into the season Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans LA DULCERIA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Released into the season Last Line: Season of suckings and burrowings %nectar irresistible Subject(s): Chicanos LA ESCALERA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are hobbling up, as usual, up the dome Last Line: What happens in the oven %will happen to us Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA ESPADA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies & gentlemen %call me senorita spear ii Last Line: Birth, cross your legs, aspire, aim Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA ESTRELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will tell you. My five-pointed heart Last Line: Dissipate in each other's arms. Cut souls %above chimney stacks Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA EVA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember that man with a little cheese Last Line: Gestapo breastplate fashion, my anger-deadening naked strut Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA GALLINA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One eye sees all Last Line: What matters is the eye, its fury-seed %the total exit Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA GATITA DE MICHOACAN, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: We prefer %to use ana maria, though we must pick her up Last Line: Her strong and slender wrists resting over her purse Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families LA GUITARRA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mi guitarra conoce todo. My guitar Last Line: Herself as a guitar, the omnivorous eater %of this nine-headed universe Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA LAGARTIJA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ese loco, say dude %you are growing on me, sabes? Last Line: Swerve your doors, tilt the wheel Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA LOTERIA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sleep, in this hurricane fiasco Last Line: Without remorse or regret, with relish Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans LA LOTERIA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sleep, in this hurricane fiasco Last Line: Without remorse or regret, with relish Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA MANO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The left-handed angel was punished Last Line: She draws the sun, the dead-eyed orb, the shining %one that leads us Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA MIGRA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is your twin without the other-half Last Line: His borderlands so infinite Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA MIGRA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's play la migra Last Line: You do not understand %get ready Subject(s): Chicanos; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LA MOSCA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an enigma at your feet, a few Last Line: Its slender, bodies, how could we speak of all this? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA MUERTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My word against theirs, my sickle humor Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans LA MUERTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My word against theirs, my sickle humor Last Line: A cash & carry star of exits and entrances Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA PALMA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my last love letter -- you know Last Line: Disappearing before me yes, it was me without you Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA PERA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say baby, yeah you again, in that Last Line: You don't dare me. Do you? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA PESTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: La peste arrived before we did Last Line: To one another, the idea of love, voice, time Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA POETA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Examine closely, comrade Last Line: After fire, ignite the tips of your red %breasts, suckle this mirror I carry Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA PRENSA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In '68, all the flowers fell. In tlatelolco Last Line: This shrunken room stained with paper & emptiness? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA PUERCA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in a condo underneath an apple tree Last Line: Who entered me, who took me, who eats me now? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA ROSA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You called my name Last Line: New silences & new loves. I use the word silences %for sky Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA SANTA NINA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to her %from the mercado, your knees dipped Last Line: Your glass case, your reflected face Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA SERPIENTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one's got me right. That's all I can tell you Last Line: They forget how I laugh. I laugh with perfection Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA SILLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fashioned from wwii chest skin Last Line: Your name in its flowery design, its downturned flourishes Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA SIRENA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stalked her, for centuries Last Line: Your black tresses inside my eyes, infinite %dying, blossoming Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA TORTURA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't kid yourself. I am easy. See this vato Last Line: With so much language about love Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA TRAMPA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lissen baby, so you got me cornered, so, my back's Last Line: Give me black world, take me Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA TRISTEZA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't pity me %don't grind ablutions Last Line: Slash into all the eyes Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA VACA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hamburger said to the bread Last Line: And the freezing child %below the she-belly? Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA VENGANZA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say baby %do me a favor Last Line: Oh, the a tattoo is for absolute-cut Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA VICTIMA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't believe anything I've said. Everything Last Line: How I lean to one side and disappear into the haze Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LA VIRGEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lift her above our shoe-shine kit Last Line: The sickle moon. Listen to your blood Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LAS DIAMONDS ARE UNA CHICA'S BEST AMIGA, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you not that stray mignonette of my garden Last Line: Be at home in my arms Subject(s): Chicanos; Home; Household Employees; Mexican Border; Mexican Americans; Servants; Domestics; Maids LAS MILPAS DE ANENECUILCO, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: He heard dynamite, his boys had reached the plaza Last Line: Dangling on a tree, the fruit of a splintered branch Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families LAS TIJERAS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got this itch in my pants. Can't tell if it's Last Line: Clip you, let me shave you down to my size Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LEGAL ALIEN, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bi-lingual, bi-cultural Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans LET HIM LIVE IN THE DREAM OF THE TURTLES, SO HISTORY CAN BEGIN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles LET US HOLD HANDS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us now hold hands Last Line: Around our petaled home, this earth, let us hold hands Subject(s): Chicanos LET US REMEMBER WHERE WE CAME FROM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Burns like a child excited that everyone has returned Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles LETTER TO AN OLD FRIEND, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Dear john, %I hate to tell you this Last Line: If you want to get a girl now %get with it Subject(s): Chicanos LIGHT GREEN FLAPS THAT EXTEND TO THE SKY, ALLOWING THEIR ENORMOUS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Stands forever and gets all the water it needs Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles LITANY TO THE DARK GODDESS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coatlicue, mother of all gods Last Line: We're straining to hear Subject(s): Chicanos LLANTOS DE LA LLORONA: WARNINGS FROM THE WAILER, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every family has one Last Line: Oye: never underestimate the power of the voice Subject(s): Chicanos; Legends, Mexican; Mexican Americans LLANTOS DE LA LLORONA: WARNINGS FROM THE WAILER, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every family has one Last Line: Never underestimate the power of the voice Subject(s): Chicanos LOS AMIGOS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His mustard suits, his pizza head Last Line: For your late-night accordion ear Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LOS BORRACHOS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You -- murrieta! You got the winer? Last Line: Say, murrieta, we're in deep, baby Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LOS BRAZOS DEL RIO, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brincaron aqui, the guide says Last Line: Watch the children Subject(s): Chicanos LOS FUMADORES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tibet, tangiers, hyde street riffs, come Last Line: Through the love-swamp, suck & shake, baby Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LOS GUARACHES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are steppin' up Last Line: More days than nights. More scars than sighs Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LOS MUSICOS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the glaciers undo their fondue Last Line: Salty guillotines rated x, the g strings, busted Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LOS PIES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Step, break, slip %and speak at the foot Last Line: Unraveling, at your fanciful door Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LOS SUPLICANTES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Empanizado, breaded one, frito Last Line: Listen to every drop of the new fire Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game) LURE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The octopus on the platter moved Last Line: We talk and laugh, you say, completely unaware Subject(s): Chicanos LUZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Brick beds toilet lines the mexican road on fire 1917 Last Line: A child speaks with a man a man among the trees Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans MALINCHE'S TIPS: PIQUE FROM MEXICO'S MOTHER, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My face isn't red Last Line: Hating your mother %ruins your skin Subject(s): Chicanos MAMA SPELL, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave your storyless books, you three Last Line: Come. Dance in the light of the moon Subject(s): Chicanos MAMACITA OF THE BURRITO WAGON, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Doesn't like gabachas Last Line: She still has the best burritos in town Subject(s): Chicanos MAN, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like faceless figures they come Last Line: The icy glint of a thousand angry pins Subject(s): Chicanos MAN COULD SAY, 'THE MAYA HAUNTED ME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The day the museum of the forehead burned down Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MAN CRAWLING TO FIND TRUTH LEAVES TRACKS IN THE MUD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MAN INSIDE HIS SHELL CAN'T GO TO HIS GOD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MAN STEPPED ON SOMETHING LIMP. IT SET OFF AN ENERGY THE AT GREW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Est road where he last spoke his poem, indistinguishable from the white haired chests of men Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MANGOS Y LIMONES (1), by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story is about swellings and slick slidings Last Line: Her mouth full of her own stories Subject(s): Chicanos MANO NOVA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The man extends his palm to shake your hand Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MARIA BENITEZ, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: A bucking horse-twisting gypsy Last Line: Ole maria ole %viva maria ole Subject(s): Chicanos; Dancing And Dancers; Ranch Life MEANDERING, VAGRANT LINE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: In which strength arrives from all directions Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MEN WALKING ACROSS THE WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Everything in the world belongs to him Last Line: The only marks left in the shattered world Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles METAMORFOSIS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Topless Last Line: In ripples of light Subject(s): Chicanos MEXICAN IN TEXAS, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS Poem Source First Line: I didn't know what color I was,' my friend Last Line: It right in a new country. I decided it was %the part that shows that counts Subject(s): Chicanos MI NEGRO AMOR MALCONTENTO, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: I'll write no more poems for you Last Line: Mi negro amor malcontento! Subject(s): Chicanos MIRACLES INSIDE THE PICTURE FRAME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I believe in the moving visions and the hidden messages, the collection of cal Last Line: Slowly emerging through the ink stains left behind the photos stuck on walls for ninety years Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MOANS OF THE RIVER WOMAN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: She arrives with a pine come between her breasts Last Line: Who knew me and threw me across the current without letting go Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MOJADOS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: There he goes again, standing on the corner Last Line: By those homemade crosses that litter our roads Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families MONTERREY - CHICAGO, by JORGE HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Many things I don't know Last Line: And air flows between my thighs Subject(s): Chicago; Chicanos MORNING WITH PEOPLE ON THE WAY TO THE STORY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Fresh smells of the earth return them to their houses Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MOUNTAIN IN MY HANDS BELONGS TO PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP MOUNTAINS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Lie. They just fit nicely on my ring finger Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MY BACKYARD NEIGHBOR, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Gloria watched the cars cruise past a motel with a neon sign Last Line: I was sure her john would bring her across the border again Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families MY FOUR CHILDREN, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Joy is a brown girl Last Line: Black and red and silver neon, %psychedelic as the 1960's Subject(s): Chicanos MY HANDS ARE DUSTING THE LORD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: My hands were larger than the last sound Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MY SORROW EMBEDDED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Slowly into my cupped hands Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MY VOICE CAME FROM PARADISE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When any man receives himself as the true sadness trembling in the fist Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NAPPING SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does he dream Last Line: The little boy asleep, not in the haystack %on the street Subject(s): Chicanos NEST IS GONE, SHELL EMPTY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His manner of knowing what moved over the sand Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NEWSPAPER HEADLINE IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, MARCH 1995: HISPANIC, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The story says that with federal budget cuts, more hispanic professionals will Last Line: Take him out of the hall in san antonio, where garcia spoke, and invite him %to the party? Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NIDO, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: With someone on either side of him holding his hands Last Line: And the lawn widens until there is no hiding place Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families NINTH LEVEL OF DEATH, by CARLOS CUMPIAN Poem Source First Line: Can chicanos lay claim to our own Last Line: This real human treasure Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Poetry And Poets NO HOST, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Condemned men he prayed for Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NO IT IS NOT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The purple stems break Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NO ONE TOOK IT AWAY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When everyone saw what it was, they became themselves Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NOPALITO, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Was a skinny kid from zacatecas Last Line: Looking for a girlfriend Subject(s): Chicanos NOT BECAUSE I LOVE LITERATURE LESS, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: But because I love the life more Last Line: Waiting for the next chapter Subject(s): Chicanos NOT TORTILLAS THIS TIME, BUT LATINO YUPPIE FOOD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Recipe for a snack, 1996 election night tv watching Last Line: Each tortilla into three wedges and drizzle with one tablespoon caramel sauce. %makes four servings Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NUNCA, NUNCA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In any dark, I feel his small hands slowly rub my Last Line: The tree. Mama whispers, nunca. Nunca. Never trust the dark Subject(s): Chicanos OASIS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To avoid the sting Last Line: Crimson sky -- candles float %like stars, like you Subject(s): Chicanos OFELIA: 1. WORK CAMP, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: She sits %in a chicken coop Last Line: Their leaves tucked in, %dark branches Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families OFELIA: 2. HITCHHIKING, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: She travels the routes of gas pumps Last Line: She will hold her girls until curses turn %to squealing tires Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families OFELIA: 3. THEIR GARDEN, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Her girls'eyes are with the bees Last Line: Of oranges not yet oranges, %sweetening Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families OFFICIAL LINE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bienvenidos, welcome, welcome, my honored guests Last Line: Hostesses, sweet-talk of money's hum Subject(s): Chicanos OFRENDA FOR LOBO, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fierce guardian angel Last Line: You, entangle me. Come. Visit, if only for this night Subject(s): Chicanos; Aunts; Ancestors & Ancestry; All Souls' Day; Mexican Americans OFRENDA FOR LOBO, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fierce guardian angel Last Line: You, entangle me. Come. Visit, if only for this night Subject(s): Chicanos OLD CHICANO POET DRINKING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Coming back to destroy the haunted heart Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles OLD WOMAN PUSHING A GROCERY CART ACROSS THE STREET GOING TO THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The day turning brighter with the black figure Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONCE THE BAREFOOT MAN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Came to the edge of the village, crying since birth and war Last Line: And he had no reason to use his feet Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONCE WHEN JUAN SAID THE GUITARS WERE MOANING IN THE PAWN SHOPS, NO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Tillas burning slowly to reassure us the roads we walked were already marked Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONCE YOU WERE SUSTENANCE IN THE HAND, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Mistake you for a burning piece of paper Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONE LONE HORSEMAN BELIEVES THE ROAD IS TURNING YELLOW AND WANTS TO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: And touch the ground to make sure he is riding in the direction his grandfather told him to go Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONE NIGHT, IN THE BITTER COLD OF JANUARY, ONE OF THEM KNOCKED AT MY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Fought the wind and the uncontrollable shadows of a moving land Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONE VOICE SITS DOWN TO EAT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Two voices devour the meal Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONLY A DANCE HALL PICKUP, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: What did I expect Last Line: The night our worlds became one Subject(s): Chicanos OUT OF NOWHERE, HE CAPSIZES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He finds in the middle of nowhere Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles OWL AND THE PANTHER ARE TRYING TO INTERRUPT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The owl and the panther are trying to interrupt Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PAIN, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Is a box Last Line: But no door Subject(s): Chicanos PANORAMA FIRE, 1980, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, the fire raised its voice Last Line: And search, suspended at an opening, a panorama Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families PERROS Y MUERTE, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Sunday: father stuffed a bill in my pocket Last Line: Poised to dash out the door, vying to set the pace Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families PESCADOTE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What think you, old fish Last Line: Roots crawling in your damp crevices Subject(s): Chicanos PESCADOTE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What think you, old fish Last Line: To the gathering wind Subject(s): Chicanos PHASE FOR THE RED TURTLE THAT SUDDENLY APPEARS, LUCID AND LONG, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Lie down to sleep on each word Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PICKING THE SORROW OUT OF THE EYES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Opens its mouth %closes its umbilical cord Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PONDER THIS: WHEN THE TRUMPET PLAYED, IT WAS A BAREFOOT JAZZ, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: From the running remains of a gift, he knew he had emerged from the sea Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles POUNDING DOWN FIRST ST., by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Alone %on a mother's day sunday Last Line: Is rooted in your streets Subject(s): Chicanos PRELUDIO PROYECTO LATINO: THE CUBAN JAZZ PIANIST GONZALO RUBALCABA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To heal all wounds. Trumpets Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PROVINCE OF ARROYO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When the earth opened, something came to me Last Line: I walked between the arms of heaven, saw it was only mud Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles READING LORNA'S POEMS, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Two hours between classes %& I'm the teacher now Last Line: But I still don't know why Subject(s): Chicanos RECUERDOS FOR THOSE OF THE FIRST WAVE, by CARLOS CUMPIAN Poem Source First Line: Wakan tanka %took three %to the other side Last Line: During life's short dream Subject(s): Chicanos; Native Americans; Poetry And Poets REMEMBER REXROTH TELLING THE TRAIN WORKERS TO LIE DOWN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The bottles blinded him with their furious light Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles REPORTER WENT WITH THE BORDER PATROL AGENT ONE NIGHT. THE AGENT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Had not been able to penetrate Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles RHYTHM FLAG, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Vindicated when the rhythm vote destroyed the world Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles RHYTHM FLAG, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Red truck passing down the street Last Line: This is going to become a lark Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles RIO GRANDE IS FULL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The rio grande is empty Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles RIVER OF WOMEN, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who dream in the sun Subject(s): Chicanos ROACHES CAME FROM EVERYWHERE, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Under %over %above %behind %between %around Last Line: We're going to move from here any time now Subject(s): Chicanos SAN JACINTO PLAZA, 1960, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The fountain in the plaza cascaded dirty water, rose above the crowd watching Last Line: Settle onto their moving mouths Variant Title(s): San Jacinto Plaz Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SAN JOSE STATE, 1978, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Old revolutionary %sacked out on a bench in the student union Last Line: I walked the other way %to avoid your sadness Subject(s): Chicanos SANCTUARY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not disengage my world Subject(s): Survival; Chicanos; Mexican Americans SANTA ANA WINDS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: The wind that is Last Line: Would have to summon Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families SEARCHING FOR SIGNS OF THE GREEN CARS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When no one returns to their country without forgetting its name Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SECOND ST., by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Second st., %with a fierce passion I have claimed you Last Line: I walk the length of your pavement %writing poems Subject(s): Chicanos SELECT THE SPOT IN THE SAND, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I can't see because it is too dark Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SENSITIVE, BALD MAN BOWED DOWN TO PRAY AND HATE THE BROKEN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SHADOW, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tapping. On the window an insistent Last Line: Those dark, kindly creatures, the summer my father died Subject(s): Chicanos SHE LEFT ME A SHIELD ORANGE AND LIGHT BROWN ROUGH CIRCLE WITH TINY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Is always there to shave the truth out of the boy Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SHE MOANED AND CALLED THE TURTLES. NO ONE BELIEVED IT BECAUSE THEY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: One looked when she gathered huge, heavy things in her arms and staggered away Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SHELL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When cortez burned mexico city, the stars glittered black in the sky before Last Line: The other survivors of the great change Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SHRINE, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Another cross by the roadside Last Line: And how old was he? Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families SIGNS ON THE BORDER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When you are caught, please come back Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SILENCE AS THEY CROSS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: It was leaving some behind, never to hear from two sons again Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SLANT, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: The hissing of onion rings called him Last Line: That one could say was out of the ordinary Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families SLY WOMAN (1), by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman who hides from me is sly Last Line: And vanishes in my fingers Subject(s): Chicanos SMALL BOY WATCHES AS THE MOON BECOMES A COIN IN THE NIGHT SKY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His years of walking through the desert in search of the coin he saw plunging toward earth Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SMELL OF OIL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The old woman said she made the world and wanted him to believe each and Last Line: Into the dry husks of the winter tree opening above him in search of other smells Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SO WHAT IF HIS FAMILY ORIGINATED AS A BUNCH OF UGLY TURTLES WITH, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Allowed before it dried up and kissed sand? Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SOMEONE IS MISSING FROM THE TRIBE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His feet twitched and the dawn came Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SOMETIMES YOU ARE NAKED AND THE FLOSS ON YOUR SKIN BECOMES A GOLD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Clothes back on without sending a prayer into the water for you and anyone that looks like you Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SONG CAME EASY FOR SOME OF US, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To shape the easy song, %build the stronger wall Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SPRING SHINING, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does he think Last Line: As if always speaking to herself Subject(s): Chicanos ST. FRANCIS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: In a desert too hot and cold for most Last Line: Over the doorbell, afraid to go on in' Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families STAYING HIGH WITH DEBBY, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: After proposition 13 %that california malady Last Line: When there's nothing else to do Subject(s): Chicanos STONE BRIDGE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: With an egg %clutched in its claws Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles STORY OUT OF THE DAILY TORTUGA TIMES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The virgin mary did not show up when she was wanted one night. Lencho Last Line: Munity. I'll tell you this, the friday night crime rate in this area was down dramatically.' Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SUDDENLY, 4,812 CUBAN 'BOAT PEOPLE' APPEAR ON THE HORIZON, TWO MILES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: They are getting closer. What does this have to do with chicanos or turtles? Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SUENO DE MIEL, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear as sun- Last Line: In a patient %ear Subject(s): Chicanos TAIL: THE STORY IS IN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: It is over without reason - captured dimension implied and planted Last Line: When the elegant country no longer existed, the tale was lost Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TAIL: THE STORY IS OUT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Once you were sustenance in the hand Last Line: Twisted parlors become closets for the last man who stood up Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TASTE OF DESIRE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: And there is no brain Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TEN HORIZONS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The music in this long trance has value when the flowers take hold of my arms Last Line: Here, as the huge leaves dry into a parchment he can't read or understand Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THE BROWN PEOPLE HEAR WINTER COMING, by INA DRAPER DEFOE Poem Text First Line: Good is the hut from the tall, graceful willow Last Line: When ghosts of the seed souls are walking. Subject(s): Chicanos; Harvest; Mexican Americans THE EYE OF TEXAS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Santa maria, madre mia, your sparrows tugged Subject(s): Chicanos; Texas THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes Last Line: Like young seals around our rock. Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life THE LURE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The octopus on the platter moved Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans THE SHOP, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went down yesterday Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans THE WEIGHT OF A LIFE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darting comet streaks in Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans THERE ARE MANY FLAGS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THERE ARE THREE WORDS - CONDITION, AVOCADO, BESTOW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: There is one filament - electric line fusing the dream Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THERE IS THE COAST AND THERE IS THE DESERT. THEY WERE THERE ALL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THERE WAS A WOMAN, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your guilt tastes bitter Last Line: Childish in a woman's mouth Subject(s): Chicanos THERE WAS NO ONE THERE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: No one waited for the first man to come across Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THEY WERE WATCHING ON RADAR, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Entering without a place to land Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THINK OF THE GREEN STEM AS A NECKLACE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Without looking for rescue or myth Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THREE TURTLES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The vato musicians are playing together again. They can't decide if they want Last Line: The sky is a raging, silent purple Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THREE TURTLES: CHUY CHAMUCO CERVANTES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Chuy came to the party first. He actually set it up. Brought his drum, too. Red Last Line: Used car lot of his asphalt dreams Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TINY MAN WITH A LONG, BROWN BEARD LAYS THE SITAR AND WONDERS WHY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His feet, a few feathers floating in the air to bend themselves around the sharp notes of instrument Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TIO, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: As a boy %you wanted to wear a dandelion Last Line: Losing its imprinted figures Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families TO THE MAN HOPING THE MASK FALLS OFF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Look at the kneeling man and how he finally moves Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TOMAS RIVERA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They knew so much, his hands Subject(s): Chicanos; Education; Mexican Americans TONIGHT ABOVE THE HATED RIVER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To protect the brown lines on my forehead Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TORNABE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waves swell warm as mothermilk Last Line: To drum's old pulse. Tornabe on the sand by the sea Subject(s): Chicanos TRUE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Green arms of a long banded thing - perhaps fish or reptile coming across the Last Line: Before anything else comes apart Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLE CHRIST, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He came out of the water and looked at me. There was a glow I recognized as Last Line: And rose through the bubbles of mud Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLE IS INNOCENT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: What is left is myth Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLE MONUMENT WAS GLOWING WHEN THE CENTURY DIED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: It is proper to go back to the egg without a fight Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLES ARE FOUND INSIDE THE HUMAN BODY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Waking in the bowels of a dream and flying out Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLES DROPPED LIKE RAIN, COVERED HIS DESIRES WITH THE GRANITE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: A sky that had quit raining turtles and was now prepared to let him live Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TWO BROTHERS, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: One gives me kitchens Last Line: Leaves making no promises Subject(s): Chicanos TWO FINGER BOB, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: After vietnam he didn't give a shit Last Line: He still doesn't give a shit Subject(s): Chicanos TWO MEN CROUCH NEAR THE ELECTRIC FENCE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: They are sinking rapidly toward the other side Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TWO MEN IN CHIHUAHUA, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Two wounds inside me now Last Line: Only chihuahua %has claimed these men Subject(s): Chicanos TWO-TIMER, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: True, debby was pure as weber bread Last Line: With those dark hickeys, rich as chocolate Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families TZIMIN CHAAK, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, sweet horse, gather your resting bones Last Line: You and I, gallop wild with the wind Subject(s): Chicanos UN CUENTO DE AGUA SANTA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king frowned, of course Last Line: And bloomed wet again, again, and again Subject(s): Chicanos UNDETECTABLE, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: On saturdays, I found myself at fairmont Last Line: The story once my blade had sliced down its heart Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families UNGUARDED LION STANDS THERE AND WATCHES ME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: At the foot of my bed Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles UNNATURAL SPEECH, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The game has changed Subject(s): Chicanos; English Language; Mexican Americans V, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years pass Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans WARD'S ROOSTERS, by JUAN DELGADO Poem Source First Line: I preferred you pacing the yard naked Last Line: And pinches of bread lay ahead of you Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican American Families WE TALKED ABOUT THE CHILDREN CRYING ALONG THE RIVER, THE BORDER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Had never met and could never allow into my dreams again Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WEEKENDS ALONE, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes you got nothing else Last Line: Knowing your rent is paid Subject(s): Chicanos WEIGHT OF A LIFE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darting comet streaks in Last Line: How to let another float within the palms Subject(s): Chicanos WELDON KEES CROSSES THE STREET IN EL PASO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: No one knows he came down here, his clothes still wet from the day. He hid Last Line: Gulls waving white bodies over large waves of scorched water Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The chicano tortuga party is a mass gathering of people who don't know each Last Line: In the barrios. Just pull the nailed boards off the windows and climb in Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: EIGHT TONS OF TORTILLAS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I have dreamed of the river often, but have not wanted to write that much Last Line: To do with its changing course Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: ELEVENTH BEAN PLUCKED FROM A PILE OF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: How could I ask myself those questions when I must prepare myself to speak Last Line: Part of the family was all it took to survive the church Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: FIFTH BEAD OF THE ROSARY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When lucha prayed hard, small miracles appeared in her dreams. Sometimes Last Line: Been, but she thought she heard his first footsteps approaching her bedroom door Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: FIRST TORTILLA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: We were talking about carlos and how he wound up in prison for killing jimmy Last Line: Shit out of all their brothers Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: FOURTH CALENDAR PHOTO OF LA VIRGEN DE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The howling coyotes came back last night. They circled the adobe house and Last Line: Pay attention to what they were doing. The coyotes keep howling Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: NINE BOWLS OF MENUDO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Kind speech is a slow flowing spring discovered by anselmo, a barefoot boy Last Line: Lennium ends the dark party Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: SECOND TACO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Freddie and his band got busted last night. They are in jail for selling weed Last Line: Can happen. I think I'm scared, dios mio! Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: SEVENTH BITE OF THE TACO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I don't know how it happened, but tony quit speaking spanish. One day he Last Line: And make him ask for it back in spanish Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: SIXTH ROLL OF THE TACO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: They keep naming their babies after selena. Since the tejano singer was mur Last Line: Something to dream for Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: TENTH BEAD OF THE ROSARY (BROKEN BUT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: There was a time when I thought I cold hide in the ground and be mistaken Last Line: I know it before she dies? Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: THIRD BOWL OF BEANS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: There is no use in thinking the family will stay together. Ramon is dead. Maria Last Line: Before he died. He must be crazy like all the others Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: THIRTEENTH HELPING OF HABANERO SAUCE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Tired of describing what it means to come back and be able to register the Last Line: Something that is here Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: TWELFTH AVOCADO CUT BY A KNIFE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I visit my uncle after thirty years. He looks like my father. It is the closest Last Line: Which one will know who I am the last time he closes his eyes Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: WE FORGOT WHY WE EVEN SERVED THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Chew it slowly and taste the oil from your grandmother's hands - the slap Last Line: Corn god stepped on long ago. Eating them off the floor of the earth Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WETBACKS, by BEVERLY CRUZ SILVA Poem Source First Line: Used to cross the river Last Line: Y no problemas Subject(s): Chicanos WHAT IF I WAS AFRAID, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Would anyone care or would they let me repeat what happened Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHAT TIME WILL YOU CROSS?, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: How many do you want in tomorrow's count?' Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN ARE THE MEN WHO COULD HAVE TAUGHT ME THE MIRROR IS ALWAYS IN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN HE DISAPPEARED AT THE EDGE OF THE SKY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Someone was there waiting for him Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE FAITHFUL WANTED TO PRAY, THEY ASKED HIM IF THEY COULD GO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His dreams for days before they came to speak to him Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE GLEAMING MAN EXTENDS HIS FLAME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The creation of the gleaming man Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE SIXTEEN BODIES WERE FOUND IN THE RAILROAD BOXCAR, THE HEAT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Grande river glowed in the night Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE TIRED MASKER BESTOWS HANDS AND SHELLS AND THE FASTING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Hair, two white haired turtles demanding power, with lifetimes of nothing but silence Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE TORTUGA PARTY ENDED, THERE WERE TOO MANY PEOPLE LEFT IN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Whose polluted water killed off the snapping turtles many years ago Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THERE IS TIME, HE RISES LIKE A PRIEST AND ASKS THE TUNNELS TO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Sustenance no one foreshadowed or believed could exist Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN YOU FAST ON THE TWIG YOUR FATHER BEHAVES LIKE A DREADED ANGEL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When you fast on the water your feet behave like a dreaded angel with power Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN YOU LOOK DOWN, THE SLOW MEMORY OF SOMETHING CRAWLING TOWARD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: This has something to do with moving mouths Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEREVER HE GOES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: In order to prosper and survive Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHITE TURTLE MET THE RED TURTLE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Their entire lifetimes to have been green Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WITCHI-TAI-TO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Witchi-tai-to from across the room Last Line: From burned tortillas across your face Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WOMAN WALKING SLOWLY IN A DARK BLUE COAT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The same thing %the same food Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles YOU DON'T KNOW THIS TEMPLE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Once, a torrid rain washed your face Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles YOU IMAGINE YOUR TRUE HOME IS A METAL CHAMBER MADE OF FLOWERS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Confident period of your life Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles YOU'RE IN HEAVEN NOW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Has stolen your face Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles |
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