Wednesday, April 6, 2011

EARTH ~







TONY MARES



STANTON STREET BRIDGE GOODBYE



Time to say goodbye

to the river crossing,

goodbye to El Paso / Juarez,

the Stanton Street Bridge.



Time to say goodbye to the family,

a child, a woman, two men,

one white-haired, all crowded

together on the rubber tire raft

crossing the river.



Time to say goodbye

to la migra in their green trucks

running around like Keystone Kops

chasing mexicanos guilty

of trying to return

to their ancestral homeland.



Time to say goodbye

to the troubled border.




from RIO DEL CORAZON
Voices From the American Land, 2011






www.voicesfromtheamericanland.org/html/mares.html



CRISTINA BRANCO












ELIADES OCHOA