Neighborhood Odes by Gary Soto

Author:Gary Soto [Soto, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY
Published: 1992-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

I want to show them

The mural I helped paint.

In the mural,

An Aztec warrior

Is standing on a mountain

With a machete

And a band of feathers

On his noble head.

I made the cuts

Of muscle on

His stomach

And put a boulder

Of strength in each arm.

He could gather

Enough firewood

With one fist.

He could slice

Open a mountain

With that machete,

And with the wave of his arm

Send our enemies tumbling.

If I could fly,

I would bring

Mis abuelitos to California.

They would touch my hair

When I showed

Them my library:

The fish making jeta,

The globe that I dropped,

The birds fluttering

Their wings at the window.

They would stand me

Between them,

When I showed them

My thirty books,

And the cuts

On the warrior,

Our family of people.

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