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Thunder In The Adobes

By Maria Steinhauser
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Illustration by Damehi Laloo

Born at the base of the Adobes

where salt-encrusted mesas

rise at discouragingly steep

pitches. Stunted growth.

Few plants tolerate

the acidity and drought.

Teenagers throw beer bottles

and busted TVs, littering

the gravely dirt with bullet shells

scarring it with donuts

and burnouts. In the land

where car frames

and bedframes are

never discarded.

Coyote saw the woman

toiling up the steep slope,

her pregnant belly

scratched by saltbush

and feet bleeding from cactus:

Turn around and run,

he warned.

Instead she stayed and

gave birth to her son

and built her house

with the yellow adobe clay,

then watched him grow

into a giant man

whom she feared.


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Posted On: January 23, 2023
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