La Resolana
—John Roche
The sun shining on
everything and everybody is seeing everything as it is at the same time.
—
O’odham elder quoted by Tomás Atencio in Resolana:
Emerging Chicano Dialogues
on Community and
Globalization
(2009)
Resolute
or reconciled to
our folly
we seek
year after year
La Resolana
the place where
the sun shines
the south-facing
wall
where, in
northern New Mexico
(El Norteño)
villagers gather
to talk out issues
Or, at the Gell
Center, before west-facing hill
usually bathed by
spring rains
or walking
streams full of frogspawn
hoping something
will jell besides tadpoles and mosquitoes
our poems so much
flotsam and jetsam
but what else is
there to speak
send forth on the
pollen-laden breeze
The only way we
pay our rent (resolutus) on this
planet, dissolve
the impediments
blocking acequias’ lifewater, keeping
each man or woman
hidden from the other, the secrets
poisoning the
polis
must be voiced,
somehow antidote found
uranium tailings
and sacred objects reburied
the fracking
stopped
No poem stopped
at the Border
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