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Sowing Seeds

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

 

my grandparents gathered

their thirteen children

to live with the land

of the land

for the land

cycles marked

year after year

 

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

 

in the fields

and on the rooftops

cycles marked

year after year

after year

 

 

From the CD's Raza Spoken Here 1 and When Skin Peels © 1999 Elba Rosario Sánchez.