From the Book - First Edition.
Mujer sin vergüenza. Tead Dance, Provincetown, 1982 ; Creed ; At fifty I am startled to find I am in my splendor ; Remedy for social overexposure ; Never mention to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas --
K-Mart, San Antonio, Texas, 1986 ; Smith's Supermarket, Taos, New Mexico, at the Fifteen-Items-or-Less Checkout line ; Noche, La Casa Magdalena, Lamy, New Mexico; After a quote from my father ; Wasps in the Buddha bell ; Calendar in the season of the pandemic ; In case of emergency ; Instructions for my funeral ; It occurs to me I am the creative/destructive Goddess Coatlicue --
Cielo sin sombrero. Cielo con sombrero / Sky wearing a hat ; Jarcería shop ; El Jardin, end of day ; I should like to fall in love with a burro named Saturnino ; Figs ; Neither Señorita nor Señora ; Our Father, Big Chief in Heaven ; This is the news unmentioned ; El Hombre ; Adelina Cerritos ; Te A
A boy with a machine gun waves to me ; Tepoztlán ; Señor Martín ; Swallows, Guanajuato Airport ; Cielo sin sombrero / Sky without a Hat ; Police blotter, May 5th, 2013, San Miguel de Allende ; Quiero ser maguey en mi próxima vida / I want to be a Maguey in my next life --
Cantos y llantos. Back then or even now ; Canto for women of a certain llanto ; Washing my rebozo by hand ; Having recently escaped from the maws of a deathly life, I am ready to begin the year anew ; Foour poems on aging ; Making love after celibacy ; Lullaby ; Instructions for vigiling the dying ; Exploding cigar of love ; God breaks the heart again and again until it stays open ; Mrs. Gandhi ; Poem written at midnight ; Year of my near death ; Letter to Pat Little Dog after losing her son ; Día de los Muertos ; Buen árbol / A good tree --
Cisneros sin censura ; Mount Everest ; Variations in white ; In my little museum of erotica ; My mother and sex ; Stepping on shit ; Naranja completa ; You better not put me in a poem ; Woman seeks her own company --