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[View this email on a browser]( [Forward to a friend]( [facebook-icon]( [tumblr-icon]( [twitter-icon]( September 13, 2019 [from “Return to Tetaroba”]( [Steven Alvarez]( light that day | bright | & the air hot | & meeting bones of those I would never know en the panteón speaking Sinaloan Spanish | which has always been the accent I’ve understood most despite hearing it least in my life sígueme he sd | follow me we must walk | roads unpaved lined with stones & dust | so much dust | polvo | of airborne bones & saguaro ancestors watching us their shadows trailing us | as sr Nalo led us past a dried creek & just over a small hill & there | a house with no doors & there attached to this home the walls of another | walls covered in hot black plastic | secured with rope there | the walls of Francisco’s home what was left of Francisco’s home now a storage space for another family’s home aquí el vivió | sr Nalo sd | he lived here | Rosario after decades of waiting | left this home & lived with her children | Francisco’s children from his first family | closer to the center of el rancho Tetaroba | how los Alvarez of Arizona dwindled to less people over one hundred years & how los Alvarez of Tetaroba increased & lived in all parts of Mexico touch these walls | de color colorado they were the same yr grandfather felt you feel the heat | they breathe hot touch these walls | paredes en la frente y la mente they were the same yr grandfather felt you feel the heat | they breathe hot I pocketed a piece of this wall & later when drunk | way drunk after getting to know mis primos better over chelas | I stumbled into the hotel hot tears in my eyes | dad I sd | I kept this for you | for all of us but always for you to keep him & to remember | always remember what he did | | climbing down the drainage of red rock | sweet minted plants | Robert | my father | father of five all born in Arizona | Robert stops to catch his breath then rips bamboo from root | clouded red dust clumps dropping | this is where he was born & now we know why | now we know why & now we can see why [Like this on Facebook]( [Share via Twitter]( Copyright © 2019 Steven Alvarez. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 13, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. [Alvarez reads from "Return to Tetaroba."]( About This Poem “My paternal grandfather Francisco Alvarez migrated from Tetaroba, Sinaloa, Mexico to Bisbee, Arizona in 1917 during the Mexican Revolution. He migrated without his family, perhaps vowing to return, but he never did. My father Robert Alvarez and I have been searching to understand my grandfather’s motives for decades, but in 2009 we realized the best way to learn was to travel to Tetaroba, know the place, and speak to the distant family there we had known only through correspondences. This portion of the longer poem recounts part of that journey, where we were guided to the original home of Francisco.” —Steven Alvarez [Steven Alvarez]( Steven Alvarez is the author of The Codex Mojaodicus (Fence Books, 2017), winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. He is Associate Professor of English at St. John’s University and lives in New York. [The Codex Mojaodicus]( Poetry by Alvarez [The Codex Mojaodicus]( (Fence Books, 2017) "Of the Threads that Connect the Stars" by Martín Espada [read-more]( "How to Dismantle a Heart" by Rodney Gomez [read-more]( "Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp" by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez [read-more]( September Guest Editor: Eduardo C. Corral Thanks to [Eduardo C. Corral](, author of Guillotine, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2020, who curated Poem-a-Day for this month’s weekdays. Read a [Q&A with Corral]( about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our [guest editors for the year.]( Your Support Makes Poem-a-Day Possible Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today’s poets each weekday morning. This free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on the weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. [make a one-time donation]( [illustration]( [Small-Blue-RGB-poets.org-Logo]( Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit [Poets.org](. You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click [here](. © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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