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  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    el abanico

    By ire’ne lara silva
    we are taught the beauty of the rose
    the serenity of the soft and the still
    the austerity of silver stars…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFour generations

    By Angelina Sáenz
    There is a framed photograph of my grandmother
    She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china…
  • Poem
    By Angelina Sáenz
    I am a feminist who loves my sport
    and the machismo in charrería often gets to me

    To be clear
    I am not …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinemachetona

    By ire’ne lara silva
    they called me for wanting to wear the traje de charro for wanting to ride astride for wanting no limits…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineYou can thank us later

    By Angelina Sáenz
    Brother charro
    do you realize
    that it is because of escaramuza
    that you have an audience?

    Our performances…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinelo nuestro

    By ire’ne lara silva
    it was the truest thing to say    a sisterhood 
    born of struggling and dreaming and training

    it was the truest…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineme llamo viento

    By ire’ne lara silva
    they announce us      Valentina Covarrubias montada en Viento
    my girl does not cower           does not wave or smile…
  • Poem
    By Angelina Sáenz
    No
    I don’t dance horses
    I am not a mariachi
    I am not a baile folklorico dancer
    I am not the half-time show…
  • Audio
    By ire’ne lara silva 
  • Poem
    By R. L. Swihart
    The migration continues. Continuous. Sporadic. 
    With mathematical complexity, wind 
    over sand 
     *
    Ropes …
  • Poem
    By Peter O’Leary
    Blood-gushered mountainside a brass parapegma of noon
    glares behind: gore of hides. Beasts all slain. Shadeless midday. Specterless
    differentiation. Glad day zodiacs augur. Awl of insight; hunters'
    blades. Actaeon: and the spirits of motion. Actaeon
    uttering:...
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