Jewels

Hawk@2001
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Sunlight slinking down

tree leaves illuminating

God's jewlery box

2010 Rozanna Landavazo

In Tune

Lily pad flipped up

like a one eared alien

a radar for Fall



2010 Rozanna Landavazo

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En mama's Cocina

myhomecooking.net

I remember mama
standing at her
kitchen counter
sorting pinto beans

I wrote poetry

She focused intently
removing little rocks
broken beans, dark ones,
shriveled up ones

I sorted words

One bean at a time
examining the little hard oval
as if it were a diamond
with great delicacy
she would carefully, gently
separate the keepers
from the castoffs

My words sat in little piles
waiting..

I'd say something like,
"ma, just thrown em' in the pot"
she would stop
roll her eyes, sigh
and look at me like
"stupid girl"

I  looked under the surface
where poetry is
in the cracks...

Now I stand at my kitchen counter
I watch my hands
doing exactly what she did

These recipes
These poems
Do they make us immortal
Do they make us count
Will we be remembered

Mama
I will pass  on
our creations
to my children
to my grandchildren

it is sustenance
it is poetry...

2010 Rozanna Landavazo

Shrapnel

Shrapnel

Stained by you
soaked into my soul
Indigo blue shrapnel

You'll not fade
easily
wounds where
trust once
lanquished

Resurfacing shards
of red
appearing and disappearing
like glass chimes
at sunset


2010 Rozanna Landavazo
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