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a notebook that i began one summer in ysleta, tejas, ept. it continues east, following the course of el río grande~bravo to El Valle and into the gulf of méxico...

Sunday, October 12, 2008

"Massive fire turned a perilous trek deadly for border crossers"

Click on video "The Fire Within". Here is the link to the article: “On his way up Tecate Peak with six other migrants, Ramirez had stopped to pray at a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe. But soon after they climbed over the border fence that Sunday, a Santa Ana blew in from the east, and they saw an orange glow rise up from the horizon. Flames raced toward them on 80-mph winds and the 'coyote' they'd hired to guide them into the United States took off, leaving them to face a blaze that was chewing up chaparral like a wild beast.”

from "Massive fire turned a perilous trek deadly for border crossers" in the LA Times.
Posted by Emmy at 11:34 AM

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Emmy
SOLSTICE (poems) and With the River on Our Face (forthcoming fall 2016). I was born and raised in Cali. After some time in NYC and Navajo country moved to la frontera by choice, by love, by the words of antepasados (literal and literary). Former New York Foundation for the Arts and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown poetry fellow. MFA Columbia. Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, 2009. Macondo Writers' Workshop Member. CantoMundo Fellow.
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