Nataraja Notes and Other Selected Poems

.native-born to mexico they fell in love at first sight(my parents)in guadalajara, they married, then, like the conquistadores of old forgednorthward and conquered, settled among the foothills of northerncalifornia in the early 50s (i incarnated near sutter creek).childhood was ravaged, consumd by rivers, salmon, oak, cries of theredtail hawk and sun stone.they were my escape, and appeasd myhunger.