Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Tierra 1
5. Story 3
6. Antonito 5
7. Flight for life 7
8. A letter to Guillermo concerning why I must write 9
9. The ditches of southern colorado 11
10. El lugar de mi naciemiento 12
11. Cuando se secan las acequias 13
12. Tio Willie 15
13. Zoot suit jesus 17
14. Bones of my people 19
15. Regard for the dead 21
16. Tan poquito el amor luego perderlo 23
17. Apishapa my heart shaped sister 24
18. Johnny redshirt please call your mother 26
19. Colcha 28
20. Atlantic 34
21. Thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla 36
22. Castigando el santo ramon fernandez 39
23. Pronoun poem 41
24. The title of the poem 43
25. Untitled (verde) 45
26. Trail to los cuates 46
27. A letter from my journal to juan 48
28. The mountains here are named after blood 51
29. A letter to an adopted son 53
30. Santa fe girl 54
31. The distance between us 55
32. Instructions on how to write a pinche suicide note 56
33. Untitled 58
34. Discussions with a ghost of his own creation on why he cannot go north 60
35. Cinco de mayo 62
36. Coal train 64
37. December 20th 66
38. I like the way the singer of the song tells jesus 71
39. Poem in c minor 73
40. A river poem for someone i never knew 76
41. For the intentions we hold within the silence of our hearts 78
42. 3515 wyandot 81
43. Mixed metaphor (inspirational hymn) 84
44. Salems 86
45. Winter after itself 87
46. The gifts the mountain kept 90
47. Independence day 93