The Face by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca [Baca, Jimmy Santiago]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, Southwest, memoir, prison, Chicano, poetry
ISBN: 978-0-9899832-1-1
Publisher: Restless Books, Brooklyn, NY
Published: 2013-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

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But back to back?

A day later on arriving at my mountain home

the rain gushed down. The creek flowed over, the Canones river brimmed

over the sides, the Chihuahuense river smacked its sides and smashed to

smithereens

logs, pine trees, they were bobbing like floaters on the raging waves

and I stood at my window and watched with joy

as the water rose and flooded the roads,

threw gigantic boulders up and over like they were soccer balls,

I skipped down the steps, grabbed my rain slicker and camera,

slogged down to the creek that had now widened by two feet,

and I crouched on my hams and clicked away at the roiling water

ravishing all in its path—

it was like the odometer

had lost its mind, and spun and spun

the water racing faster in volume and momentum,

forty feet log trees like toothpicks swept past colliding into bridges

taking all three bridges down, carrying with it five feet of sludge that barred the creek crossing

no longer there, and rain roared with such hunger

and an element so connected to nature in me

hummed with creek water,

and when I turned to see a wave of water engulfing the road

and consuming all man-made structures in its way,

I could feel my face smiling, content, at home

with this force so negligibly joyous strumming the violin swing o my soul

with the deepest sorrow and sadness

that more an expression of happiness,

my face creased not a hundred lines of love

unfolding itself with the water and floating with the branches and trees and boulders,

attentively part of all the orgy.

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