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  • Undocumented
  • Daniel Peña (bio)

There are no aliens from this earth.

If we are beaners Are we not organic?

We are Undocumented, files pulled and carted Manila folders, faces covered by recycled fibers Plastered with tabs, blue, red, and written Lost for twenty-five years. Lost nothings.

Esperanza, Mercedes Born: Matamoros, 1983 This will be your year.

In the meantime Hold your offspring in your gut: no room for it here. Let it cry blood into your womb Until it is bled yellow in the Boiling desert sun.

Let it fall to the earth and replant Itself, the seedling of a crucifix tree Where the migrants pray out loud; Where the dying fall to their knees. [End Page 130]

Daniel Peña

Daniel Peña is an undergraduate student studying English and linguistics at Texas A&M University (College Station), where he won the 2007 Charles Gordone Award for Fiction and the 2008 Charles Gordone Award for Poetry.

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