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I only recognized your hair: short,

neatly combed. Our mother


would’ve been proud.

                           In the Sonoran desert

your body became a slaughter-


house where faith and want were stunned,

hung upside down, gutted. We


                                          were taught


to bring roses, to aim for the bush. Remember?

You tried to pork


a girl’s armpit. In Border Patrol

                                         jargon, the word


for border crossers is the same whether

                           they’re alive or dead.

When I read his flesh fell


off the bones, my stomach rumbled,

       

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