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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