Through the Fence
for all immigrants

I offer these medicine poems
I gather this sage for you poems
Teach me to pray the rosary poems
Let’s face the four directions together poems
In lak’ech- tu eres mi otro yo poems
Sweat together poems
Eres mi Yemaya poems
Flor Y Canto Poems
Don’t drown in the river poems
Altar for our ancestor poems
sobadora curandera poems
Sana sana colita de rana poems
Drum beat poems
Conch shell poems
Cumbia poems y salsa poems
Hold my hand through the fence poems
Here’s some food for your journey poems
La Bestia at high speeds poems
You are my kindred poems

Bring me your Dreamer poems
Your fuck this borderwall poems
Don’t worry about the orange guy poems
Don’t speak his name poems
Your existence is medicine poems
Help me uncelebrated Cinco de Mayo poems
ya basta! Poems
Grito poems
Indigenous wisdom poems
Palo Santo poems
You were here first poems
Decolonize your soul poems
Code-switch poems
You belong poems
No more war poems
Son Jarocho poems de Resistencia
Corrido poems
Con safos poems
Flying chancla poems

Share this meal with me poems
Here! Drink some water poems
Let me die your death poems
One day at a time poems
Café con leche poems
Pan dulce poems
Pupusa poems
Guayaba poems
Mangüitos con alguashte poems
Raspa poems
Espiropapa poems
Platanitos poems
La Pulga poems
Molcajete poems

Pocho poems
Salvi poems
East L.A. poems
Valle poems

Gather in this embrace poems
Crying poems
We’re waiting for you on this side poems
We have hot coffee and tamales poems
Recipe poems
Share my rebozo poems
Come, fall in love poems
You are worth more than any labor you do poems
You are him, her, they, them poems
Welcome home poems
Get some rest poems
Tomorrow we’ll plan the future poems
I love you poems.

Take with you these love poems
You are not illegal poems
We’ll protect your women and children poems
You are not an alien poems
This is actually your land poems
You deserve so much more poems
Hide behind me poems
You are not merchandise to be locked up in container poems
Stay speaking Spanish, it is poetry
Warsan Shire home poems
Como la flor poems
Tanto amor poems
La Llorona poems
Elotero poems
Be my chola poems
Pan de polvo poems
Orale vato poems
Slow dance poems
Padrino de DJ poems
Kiss me when I’m asleep poems
Starsong poems
Deep tongue poems
Wildflower poems
Riversedge poems
Chicharra poems
First & Last
Breath poems

Instructions

By Edward Vidaurre

Cortázar gave me instructions
on how to beat insomnia, on the first night…

read to the moon for 10 minutes,
read to a cat for 9,
the dog 8,
a child 7,
a stranger 6,
a doll 5,
a painting 4,
a book 3,
my feet 2,
my hands 1,

and if I’m still awake, write to each, a letter of
apology.