“The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.”
― Buried Onions
― Buried Onions
“Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.”
― The Elements of San Joaquin (Pitt Poetry
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.”
― The Elements of San Joaquin (Pitt Poetry
“Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear. DOWNTOWN”
― The Afterlife
― The Afterlife
“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”
― New and Selected Poems
― New and Selected Poems
“I drank that sentence and began to glow.”
― Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing – Emotionally Resonant YA Verse About First Crushes and Heartbreak
― Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing – Emotionally Resonant YA Verse About First Crushes and Heartbreak
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