Tarjeta from the Chihuahuan Grasslands
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At first I laughed at your postcard,took it for a turista’s joke—two gaunt porters bearinga bowed rodacross the desert grassland.
And swaying from that roda dozen hulking locusts,each as thick as your thigh.
The bearers don’t seem to hearthe rasping when the bodies rubor the sere grassseething in their wake.
Turning over the tarjeta,I find the heaviest cargoscratched in broken strokes—hissing syllables,parched verbs—love’s unlovely husksrustling home. [End Page 60]
Lis Sanchez has fiction and poetry in Nimrod, Greensboro Review, New Orleans Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Writer’s Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Greensboro Review Award for Fiction, the Eyster Prize for Fiction, the Lullwater Review Prize for Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing.
