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Sowing Seeds
Elba Rosario Sánchez
Para Daniel y Rebeca y sus bisabuelos de Zacatecas
- my ancestors knew their grains
- like each of their offspring
- once planted
- they watered and nurtured them
- growing cycles
- of sprouting sons and daughters
- predicting harvests to come
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- my grandparents gathered
- their thirteen children
- to live with the land
- of the land
- for the land
- cycles marked
- year after year
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- these brothers and sisters
- my uncles and aunts
- on warm nights
- sat in a circle
- on the rooftop of the house
- en el rancho
- guitars and harmónicas
- their favorite songs
- rising to the stars
- canciones de amor
- love songs
- like sighs and soft whispers
- sung to the moon
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- in the fields
- and on the rooftops
- cycles marked
- year after year
- after year
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- From the CD's Raza Spoken Here 1 and When Skin Peels © 1999 Elba Rosario Sánchez.
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