With the river on our face

And it's you

I . Downriver

El Valle

Siphoning Sugar

A woman like a city

Gone downriver

El Paso~El Valle

Downriver Rio Grande Ghazalion

Boca Chica~Playa Bagdad

[Why]

Green Light Go

II. Midriver

The Same Kind of Huecos

Left after crossing

Border Twins, Confluences

The History of Silence

The Valley Myth

III. Rio Grande~Bravo

Rio Grande~Bravo

IV. Cara

Laredo Riviera

Exit routes

November

Upon Obama's presidential interregnum a year before the opening of Anzalduas International Bridge, not named after Gloria Anzaldua

[No toronjas]

The Snarling, Whimpering Dogs

[Every person]

The River on Our Face

V. Boca

What the Arizona SB 1070 copycat bills in Texas can't abolish

Wildlife Refuge Poetics

Something awakened and killed off each time a teacher speaks

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Dear Celan

[Magic needed]

I still dream of you

[Mitochondrial Tonantzin]

Poesia

Staying in the flood

Anzalduas Park

laguna madre

Not one more refugee death

Notes and Works Cited

Acknowledgments.