(2 January 1952 / Santa Fe, New Mexico)

poet Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Poems of Jimmy Santiago Baca

21. Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII 1/2/2012
22. Old Woman 1/3/2003
23. Oppression 1/3/2003
24. Sanctuary 1/2/2012
25. Ten 1/2/2012
26. The Blackbird 1/3/2003
27. The County Jail 1/2/2012
28. The Day Brushes It's Curtains Aside 1/3/2003
29. There Are Black 1/2/2012
30. This Day 1/2/2012
31. Tire Shop 10/11/2011
32. To My Own Self 1/3/2003
33. Too Much of a Good Thing 1/2/2012
34. V 1/2/2012
35. What is Broken is What God Blesses 1/2/2012
36. When Life 1/3/2003
37. Who Understands Me But Me 1/3/2003
38. Yesterday 1/2/2012

Green Chile

I prefer red chile over my eggs
and potatoes for breakfast.
Red chile ristras decorate my door,
dry on my roof, and hang from eaves.
They lend open-air vegetable stands
historical grandeur, and gently swing
with an air of festive welcome.
I can hear them talking in the wind,
haggard, yellowing, crisp, rasping

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