“alurista es el mero mero, a ‘root’ Xicanx poet, the etymology of our post-colonial mind literature starts with this vato. These word-breaths are more than letters on paper—they are prophecies, clarities, unclarities, rage on page, and humo de copal on a warm spring day.”
 
—Luis J. Rodriguez, author of “Borrowed Bones” and “My Nature is Hunger.”

Word Master
Word Maestro
 
Always in the Present Tense
You give us pause to inhale exhale
wisdom
beauty
sensuality
conscience
 
you b the one named tamed
Desolate Nazizona
 
Your heartbreaking questions
Teach us meaning
 
You make us One with All
Sacerdote of the Living Word
 
Heart. Soul. Blessing is u
 
—Denise Chávez is an Activist and Director of Libros Para El Viaje, an ongoing Refugee/Migrant/Asylum-seeker book initiative, and the author of The King and Queen of  Comezón