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Subject: CHILDREN OF MIGRANT WORKERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER DINNER AND AFTER OUR FEW TRAVELING CHICKENS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That my spit turned to ice when it hit the ground
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


BREASTING THE ROGUE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We reach a town of barefoot kids. No one
Last Line: Life rushes swiftly in one-bar towns
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


CALLING THE DOVES, SELS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon time, %on a lunch break from driving the tractor
Last Line: And perch itself on a nearby tree
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Fathers; Mexican American Families


CATALINA EDDIES, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dusk to dawn, sleek skunks enjoy
Last Line: The annual burning pulse
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


CLOG OF HER BODY, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breathe in, blow out, legs in stirrups, bottom up
Last Line: Before you spur him in his sides
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


COTTON ROWS, COTTON BLANKETS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sprawled on the back of a flatbed truck
Last Line: Brought to foal in the outlines of summer
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


CREEK THAT BEARS THE SALMON, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once upon a time
Last Line: It keeps perfect time
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


EL CONAL: MY GRANDFATHER'S GRIDDLE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He'd stand outside %watch his garden for hours
Last Line: It was good. There was nothing more to say
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


EL MOVIMIENTO, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hey, ese, you heard about that righteous
Last Line: About el movimiento, something about cockroaches
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


EL PORVENIR, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He paints on the front of his store
Last Line: Of women straight from the fields
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


EMILIANO ZAPATA EYES, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Laura's so goofy over him
Last Line: In a hive of drones
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


FARMWORKERS' DAUGHTER, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Khaki, everywhere khaki. %not us, boy
Last Line: We'll be so outta sight
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


FIESTA IN THE MOUNTAINS WAS A RARE TREAT, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With smiles and music
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


FINDING A WAY, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where did I leave the recording
Last Line: For walking the wrong %side of town
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


GIRLFRIENDS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rosie/ I %got pregnant
Last Line: Rosie/I thought %I/she %was lucky
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


GLEANINGS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twilight carves a dimple in the valley
Last Line: Landscapes that yield their portion of heart
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


GREEN CORN SEASON, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You promised you would never keep secrets from me
Last Line: To begin in the green corn season
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


HE WHO IS LIKE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He toasts me with cinzano on the rocks
Last Line: Of brown. I have never felt a kinder glance
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


HEARINGS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We weren't unaware, stuck here
Last Line: To bring the sons home safe
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


HEARTLANDS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son hitched a trailer to his rambler
Last Line: A passion for wild turkey in the brush
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


HUELGA, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fresno slumps late summer
Last Line: As we chant %huelga! Huelga! Huelga!
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


I LOVED THE NIGHT, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I would cup my hands to my mouth %and join them
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


I WAS BORN IN THE TINY TOWN OF FOWLER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There can be kindness
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


IF I TRUST MYSELF, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time I swore I wouldn't be
Last Line: A sweet fragrant planting impossible to remove
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


IN THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS AROUND LAKE WOLFER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And flapped their peppery feathers and ran after me
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


IT'S NOT ABOUT RACE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is thick summer in new york
Last Line: Nothing to anchor him to the newly wet lawn
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


IT'S TIME TO SETTLE DOWN. IT'S TIME JUANITO GOES TO SCHOOL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The way my father called the doves
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


LA CURANDERA, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: She shuffles to the door on faded scuffs
Last Line: I can never go to heaven if the old man dies
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


LA LLORONA, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cuca bellies down, her scarred arms from last year's fire
Last Line: Bubble of head inches below water
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


LA MADRUGADA, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The radio alarm clock sputters
Last Line: Of harvesting the fields
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


LAS RUBIAS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear modern women's magazine the ads say you can be a
Last Line: Against a gold-lit world
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


LOVE AFFAIRS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if short skirts make a bad
Last Line: To see you again, and you tell me %she's pregnant
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


MATTER OF CONTROL, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't be afraid %at night
Last Line: Your shadow flung %against the land
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


MEMORIZING THE CENTER OF TIME, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drops of memory collect
Last Line: To the candy store
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


METAPHORIC COCKROACHES, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Experts theorize cockroaches survive anything
Last Line: The rest of one's life. A treat. Sweet. Iron-rich. Sustaining
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


MILKSNAKES AND CHOCOLATE LILIES, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The children squabbled last night, piercing squall
Last Line: Bulbs that smolder five dry years then bloom
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


MY MOTHER WAS A HEALER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Out of bed in their squeaky paper boots
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


MY MOTHER WOULD COOK BREAKFAST OUTSIDE, IN THE OPEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The wavy clay of the land was my plate
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


OCCUPANT: BLUE ROOF APARTMENTS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mail addressed to occupant
Last Line: Addressed to us by name
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


OLD MARRIED COUPLE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He never told anyone he couldn't swim
Last Line: He did live, %we should have lived
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


ON THE FIRST DAY SHE MADE BIRDS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He asked me if I had a choice
Last Line: Both alike %endless possibilities
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


ONE DAY MY FATHER DECIDED, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From a box radio on the wall
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


ONE TIME WE VISITED FRIENDS IN FOWLER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where I learned to sing
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


OPERATION WETBACK, 1953, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day begins like any other day
Last Line: That never brought him home
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


ORCHARD OF FIGS IN THE FALL, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere deep in the san joaquin valley
Last Line: A grave of limbs gone wrong
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


OTHER MARIAS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once there were 50 marias
Last Line: Definitely not a virgin
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


POSTERIORS FOR POSTERITY, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: How to talk politely
Last Line: A nice juicy butt
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


PRESSING REALITIES, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scent of pine enters my window
Last Line: Reality might undo me
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


QUALITY POOR, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can't be poor to live in the blue roofs
Last Line: Managed because we stand in line for aid
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


RAISINS IN SUMMER, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friday before payday we haul the kids
Last Line: Have been, alongside our unmet desires
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


REPATRIATION, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called the process. Red wheat senators
Last Line: A distorted credo in either tongue
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


ROAD CHANGED WITH THE SEASONS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And shrink into dark raisins
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


RUNA PACHA, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The feeling grows for weeks
Last Line: In this inhospitable air
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


SAN DIEGO AGED, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My friends and I consume botanas
Last Line: Each day I breathe
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


SERPENTINE VOICES: FROM SILENCE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: How many voices can I plum in this poem
Last Line: God, we were something else
Variant Title(s): Serpentine Voice
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


SETTLING, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've never seen his eyes so brilliant, cat's eyes
Last Line: Anything can sneak between the cracks
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


SHE TENDS BAR, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: While she waits for a man
Last Line: And unstop her sink besides
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


SOFTBALL AND TOMATO FIELDS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They swarm like ants from the edge of the field
Last Line: Runners caught between bases are all picked off
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


SOMETIMES MY MOTHER WOULD SURPRISE US AT DINNER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And for a moment the world would stop spinning
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


SQUARING THE NAMES, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we caught lice in third grade
Last Line: The one whose tongue savors life
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


THE MODEL KID, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet the child who says, 'I will'
Last Line: Dies, no soul in town will mourn.
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Obedience; Parents; Parenthood


THESE OLD RAGS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dig in hard clay dirt
Last Line: I could use a cheap gardener
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


THIS YEAR'S CYCLE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We lie on the sand, carve tunnels down our sides
Last Line: We make connections: our sons ask about the beach
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


THIS YEARNING SEASON, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another spring done up in blue-eyed grass
Last Line: More dance and show me how its done
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


TISICA, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does your dusty shack
Last Line: Nightmare of the poor, the dread disease
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


TURNING TRAYS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each vineyard is a world of crosses
Last Line: Unfinished lines to tend
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


TURNS AT THE DANCE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man who loves rancheras holds out his hand
Last Line: She weighs his invitation to the dance
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


VALLEY FEVER, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was a favorite niece, the only daughter
Last Line: Fifth down on the left, my branch grows slowly
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


WE'RE ALL ALIKE, YOU KNOW, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My client tells me there's a look
Last Line: Right, that makes us all alike?
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


WHAT THE CURANDERA KNOWS, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a candle and a canning jar
Last Line: What more is there?
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


WHEN LIVING WAS A LABOR CAMP CALLED MONTGOMERY, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back in the forties, you joined the family each summer to sort
Last Line: The camp and no one would know your smell
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


WHEN SOUNDS RING TRUE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long ago, a woman struck a gong with a hammer made
Last Line: Matching jaws thrust forward to crowd the sky
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SEE TO BELIEVE, by DIANA GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The monster lived on the road to merced
Last Line: To cover my gasps. His breath filled my room
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Poverty


WHEREVER WE STOPPED, WE SET UP A CARPA -- A TENT, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The tiny holes of the canvas
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families


YOU WERE BORN ON THE ROAD, LIKE YOUR FATHER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The land like tropical birds
Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Mexican American Families