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1	Title: Border Town: 1938 Source(s): Borders Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) A poem about a childs experience of racial segregation. She counts cement cracks little Esperanza with the long brown braids, counts so as not to hear the girls in the playground singing, “the farmer's in the dell the farmer's in the dell” laughing and running round-round while little Esp... Show Keywords:
2	Title: A Voice Source(s): My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) A poem describing the narrators mothers struggle to learn English. Even the lights on the stage unrelenting as the desert sun couldn’t hide the other students, their eyes also unrelenting, students who spoke English every night as they ate their meat, potatoes, gravy. Not you. In your house that smelled lik... Show Keywords:
3	Title: For Georgia O’Keeffe Source(s): My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults 1984-1999 Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) The poet responds to the paintings of Southwestern artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). I want To walk With you on my Texas desert, To stand near You straight As a Spanish Dagger, To see your fingers Pick a bone bouquet Touching life Where I touch death, To hold a warm, white Pelvis up In the glaring sun And see Your red-b... Show Keywords:
4	Title: Immigrants Source(s): Borders Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) A poem describing immigrants hope that their children will fit into US society. wrap their babies in the American flag, feed them mashed hot dogs and apple pie, name them Bill and Daisy, buy them blonde dolls that blink blue eyes or a football and tiny cleats before the baby can even walk, speak to them in thick Engl... Show Keywords:
5	Title: Legal Alien Source(s): Chants Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) Poem about a legal alien who doesn’t fit in on either side of the border. Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural, able to slip from “How’s life?” to “Me’stan volviendo loca,” able to sit in a paneled office drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish at a Mexican restaurant, American but hyphenate... Show Keywords:

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