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To love and know him through: indeed, the exile who He never quite grasped: overused and misused often His favorite word, which, like the rest of his new life, Have a good day today, indeed-Īnd again in the evening: Gracias to my bella wife, On us the next day: Buenos días, indeed, my family. To buy a used Spanish-English dictionary he keptīedside like a bible-studied fifteen new wordsĪfter his prayers each night, then practiced them The vernacular of New York City sleet, neon, glass-Īnd the brick factory where he learned to polish To spell out the second half of his life in English. That sung into la brisa of the island home he left With las palmas, the sharp rhythm of his macheteĬutting through caña, the syllables of his canarios Of sol with his soul-a Cuban alma-that swayed Of las montañas that lined his village, the rhyme My bad.įirst half of his life lived in Spanish: the long syntax They don’t even know what the fuck to do. I chaosed all the hell you have yet to feel. More metal.Īnd I got my running shoes on and all this sky that’s all mine.įuck your order.

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It is February 7th, 1979 and my skin is moreĬopper than any sky will ever be. I can get, and all the blue-gold sky I want around me. Somewhere in the mess of graphs and math and compass Chaos like a motherfucker.Īnd you tried to order me. ThinkingĪbout rings and how Jupiter should just pussy All the other planets, they thinkįuck your time. To make a nice little loop around the sun. Labeled as “chaotic,” Pluto was later discredited from planet status in 2006. A study in 1988 determined that Pluto’s path of orbit could never be accurately predicted. On February 7, 1979, Pluto crossed over Neptune’s orbit and became the eighth planet from the sun for twenty years. The bodies of words so easily lost in the translation. It's strange what makes it over the border It's strange what our memories hold on to.

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Home is not a sound my voice knows how to make. In my tongue, we do not pronounce the letter H. Teach the letters to just flee from my lips like my parents, Teach me how to hide my country behind the consonants Something we all feel silly for believing in. I say two words with the same meaning are what we call synonyms. He asks, what does the word America mean? Hears his mother's weeping and learns the word sacrifice. Hears his mother's accent being mocked and learns the words shame,

Miguel hears the marimba and learns the word home, They say music is deeply intertwined with how we remember. So when I ask him to sing the second verse, He tends to say things in the wrong order. When crossing over from Spanish to English, He learns how to pack them in a suitcase and forget. Into my English as a second language course,Īnd is the first to raise his hand for every question.īut Miguel views letters in a different way than most.īecause there are a lot of words in Spanish Miguel was the last fourth grader to migrate Miguel wants to learn the Star-Spangled Banner.

Someday, in my father's Spanish inflection, Like an American in the street or some Mesopotamian desert I am given the name of an American cheerleader I am The laughing dove who nests in olive trees? His ankles briefly brushing against mine.ĭancing, sucking her belly toward her spine. If it stinks in Afghanistan, I am so shocked God inventedĮverything out of nothing, but the nothing

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Vibrate: wires full of crows in heavy wind. Is a mistake? During the procession, the aunts’ wails Saying All the time when the tele-researcher asks him My father’s footprints in his sister’s garden. Have some cream cheese with that, says another. Who fell, or a daughter who hid in rubbleįor two years, until that knock of officers And parade their grief with musky, expensive scents

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