Something I Have Been Thinking About Lately (originally published as Daily Poem Practice Sept 2)
*** if you are reading this on a cell phone, rotate it sideways. It's worth it, I promise.**** ****A practice inspired by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's A Hundred Falling Veils **** Something I Have Been Thinking About Lately I don’t remember when I started listening to Radio Bronco As a channel to a more fluent More connected version Of my Spanish speaking self. I have been listening in the car While I wash dishes While I make dinner For some time now, though. So imagine my horror When sided by my eldest A bilingual child not yet 8 When the Secretary of State Came over the airwaves And in plain English painted horror stories typical tropes about guatemaltecos, salvadoreรฑos everybody, save mexicaรฑos and ended it with “If you are here illegally, know the US Government is coming for you!” As with all parenting so much of it is in real time: I could have switched it off. I could have said nothing. But instead I turned to her frightened eyes and said “There...