LareDOS[redux] (https://laredosnews.com/category/columns/page/3/)
Ilya Kaminsky: “We Lived Happily during the War, and when they bombed other people’s houses, we // protested / but not enough, we opposed them but not / enough.”
Seditionist arrestees face aftermath of their compulsions; the 725 are but a fraction of the 2,000-plus rioters
If we pay attention, we’ll find a glimmer slipping through the limbs, a bit of light that might cause us to see the truth beyond our own nose and with a clarity and steadfastness not afforded by blind belief or ignorance or excuses. Maybe. Just maybe it casts a trace of truth against the written house.
Native Americans have long considered the Bordas Escarpment east of Laredo holy ground for harvesting sacramental peyote
As it was in Laredo when we were children, Alfonso was our neighbor on the ranchland
“Oh, you tiny Texas tyrants
in your frail white hide and drawl,
a-feared of women and all migrants
so you weaponize the law.”
Outside your front door climactic changes are altering life while too many people still stand by and watch
Alert, read no further: if you don’t know what I’m talking about, odds are this is about you
