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Tule Tree

...The tree of Tule in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the tree with the largest trunk diameter in the world. Its circumference reaches almost 60 meters and has a height of 42 meters. Its approximate age is 2,000 ye...

Categories: oaxaca, tree,
Form: Haibun

On a Transgender Child

...A transgender child
does not not exist 
just because a white man 
says that that is so
as two spirited
third genders 
and others
(eight in the Talmud! that I didn’t know)
exist around the glo...

Categories: oaxaca, anti bullying, gender, world,
Form: List

Forro Part Two Glams and Glamorous

...Former champions (World Heavyweight and Tag Team champions)
were managed by manager Solfege Virtuoso. Trying to regain
their now lossed titles
the manger withdrew them from contention
and disallo...

Categories: oaxaca, business, culture, education, film,
Form: Bio

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

What a Curtain Bisbee Has

...What a curtain Bisbee has
   That keeps Mexico subdued
And influences the lands
   From which the Sierra was hewn.

What purple folds keep Oaxaca
   As a fortress in the sky
Breaking only in P...

Categories: oaxaca, friendship, mountains, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Those Early Attempts At a Mexican Food

...those early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning...

Categories: oaxaca, august, devotion, food, happiness,
Form: Romanticism

In Love With a Mexican Alebrijes

...I have fallen in love with a winged dragon alebrijes,
Have to buy it of course, is it signed?
What artisian created this piece of bright gorgeousness?
I look for a signature.
This phantasmagorica...

Categories: oaxaca, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Sage Fright

...

I’m a-starting to *pavo tremble
this time of year
From all of the oven symbols
rack-et I hear

I’m a seasoned Mestizo pheasant,
best strutting actress
in the whole Oaxaca alfalfa fi...

Categories: oaxaca, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Light Verse

Rainforest

...I’ve lived an age in Oaxaca climes
encased in peppered mist
desolate with seasoned sun
a place of darkness
holding muted beams
as a seedling's life struggles 
to finger slots of light
but air ...

Categories: oaxaca, nature,
Form: Free verse

Giving Up

...We hired the neighbor kid
to put it all on eBay. He started
with the train-set you bought me on a whim, 
Santa Fe, like the locomotive that pulled me
through Navajo country 40 years ago.
Now, th...

Categories: oaxaca, life, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse