Month: May 2014
2015 Texas Poetry Calendar
The Serpent in My Eye
Beer Bottles
This poem originally appeared in the Spring 2014 edition of Interstice. Beer Bottles My grandfather Manny Garza Had three loves: Golf, beer, and Green-eyed girls (Hence his marriage To my grandmother And their later divorce). But of these three, The greatest was beer. When I was barely a toddler He’d…
“Autumn Lovers,” a Tanabata Sequence
Tanabata is a Japanese star festival derived from the similar Chinese celebration of Qixi. Meaning “seventh night,” Tanabata marks the yearly reunion in late summer or early fall of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (Weaver Princess and Boy Star), which correspond to the stars Vega and Altair. In the mythology…
Shattering and Bricolage accepted for publication
2015 Texas Poetry Calendar
The Serpent in My Eye
Beer Bottles

This poem originally appeared in the Spring 2014 edition of Interstice. Beer Bottles My grandfather Manny Garza Had three loves: Golf, beer, and Green-eyed girls (Hence his marriage To my grandmother And their later divorce). But of these three, The greatest was beer. When I was barely a toddler He’d…
“Autumn Lovers,” a Tanabata Sequence

Tanabata is a Japanese star festival derived from the similar Chinese celebration of Qixi. Meaning “seventh night,” Tanabata marks the yearly reunion in late summer or early fall of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (Weaver Princess and Boy Star), which correspond to the stars Vega and Altair. In the mythology…