Nataraja Notes and Other Selected Poems

.native-born to mexico they fell in love at first sight(my parents)

in guadalajara, they married, then, like the conquistadores of old forged

northward and conquered, settled among the foothills of northern

california in the early 50s (i incarnated near sutter creek).

childhood was ravaged, consumd by rivers, salmon, oak, cries of the

redtail hawk and sun stone.they were my escape, and appeasd my

hunger.