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Driving On Flames To Visit Dad
we picnic at the foot of Picacho Peak
sized like ants
we’ve crossed the desert buzzing like bees
meanwhile dad’s chasing women in lacy Indio
lipstick on the floor
he laughs about his latest conquest
dad...
Chaguito Beltran
after paying the money
to the coyote
he was back in the States
for the fourth time in his career
after having sex
with a fifteen year old gringuita
he spent eight months in jail
and was deported
he was going to do things...
Planisphere
in Ashbery’s new poems
he sounds like my abuela
with no teeth
yet with a memory so vivid
the past comes to life
my abuela made
the same patchwork quilt over & over
endowing each one with the same beauty
I wish I could say the same...
Pizza Comes To Papalote
I curse my cousin Joe Tovar
for introducing me to pizza
back in the Sixties
at that pub on West Kingsbury Street
operated by a gringo
and his fine oriental wife
next to those fucking Shanafelts’
junkyard
you could see Ida...
Prose Poem Polquita
two black gangbangers
stole my rhyme
beige Hispanic punk took my parking spot
at a Paul Martinez Pompas reading
on the way there
a white racist shot my haiku
butch lesbian ripped off the poem
I wrote for my girl
fucking cops...
Reyes Cardenas is a top rated contemporary poet. His style is engaging and his day to day observations piquant. There is something in Chicano Poet for all poetry readers. Certainly on my Favourites list.