Foreword
Part 1. El Otro Lado / The Other Side
1. the past is a candle in the temple of my mouth
2. the other side (I.)
3. scar
4. all your braids like a compass will bring us home
5. all that is left
6. where it begins
7. tristeza profunda
8. heard in the yes of gods
9. she who does not feel her name beneath her feet will wander, will wander
10. if I wear my hair this way
11. imbunche
12. 1901
13. blood of la mojana
14. the flower husband
15. purgatory
16. la llorona
17. the dream in which we die together
18. heresy in our bones
19. missionary
20. prayer for the children who will be born with today’s daggers in their tomorrow eyes
21. the other side (II.)
Part 2. Casi Pájaros / Almost Birds
1. dis-astre
2. when the machete will sever the ballad (memory-mourning for El Mozote)
3. fog
4. last balloon
5. eternal return
6. so far
7. the terror of clean
8. A11728
9. non-combat related incidents & other lies
10. elix/womb/house
11. what the bird has seen
12. like fish like song
13. little birds
14. onomasticon (I.) (or, I sing the names of our dead)
15. the ache on the tongue of the grieving
16. the value of sparrows
17. azan, or the call to prayer, o resistir es rezar que arrasamos el orden de arrancamiento, or when the sky opens & I am swallowed
18. ‘til the taste of free in our mouths (brown baby lullaby)
19. for the boy who went to war & came back fire, came back song
20. fishbone
Endnotes
Gratitude