Wixárika

Poem by Chicano poet Juan Felipe Herrera's anthology Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, 2015.

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What

did I know?

Tepic-Nayarit,

Ixtlan,

Ixcuintla. Where was I?

The Huichol smoke.

Coras

in Bogart

hats awaiting blessings from Big Al to hand them agricultural prowess, a drop

of chemical awareness from a new form of capitalism. This?

Read full poem here.