Born At The Circus -- I'm Asked About Home -- Bisabuela Married A Spaniard -- Where I Inherit My Silence -- Nopal En El Frente -- History Of Walls -- Driving Down Highway 111 -- His Jawbone Caged My Grandfather's Skin -- Watching The Green Mile For The First Time & I Dream That Night Knowing John Coffey Could Have Also Been My Father -- Arrival -- I Watch All The Drought The Desert Carries -- Everything Dies Here -- In Praise Of Snow -- Christmas -- Tenochtitlan -- I Once Cracked Open The Earth -- Hija De La Cosecha -- The Time My Momma Gave Me The Chancla For Letting Andrew Jackson Escape -- Momma Knows All The Monsters' Hidden Teeth -- I Learned to Tiptoe For -- In A Dream A Small Statue Of La Virgen De Guadalupe Prepares To Dive From The Bookshelf -- El Rancho 92 -- Truths At The All-American Canal -- A Lesson In Sewing -- Abuela Is A Machete Wrapped In Her Favorite Apron -- A Brown Girl's Blues -- Abuela's Hair -- False Security: A Story Told From Eve's Ribcage -- Leaked Audio From A Detention Center -- Don't Be Afraid To Speak -- Metamorphosis For Speaking Spanish -- Parts & Definitions For Mestiza-Mouth -- Chicana Learns Survival From The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- Safe House -- This Skin Be -- Zoo Of Eden -- Deity -- What Becomes Of War & Name -- The First Time I Met The KKK -- My Country Is Panting -- Dinner With Cornel West -- A Spanish To English Translation On Sweet Things Gone Sour -- Explosions Ripped Through A Fireworks Market North Of Mexico City On Tuesday Killing At Least 35 People -- How To Be A Ghost On Earth -- Synonyms For Donald Trump -- To Understand Border -- Notes On How To Pull Apart The Earth: i. preparation ; ii. dust bowl of 2030 ; iii. a new nation -- Surviving The Flood -- La Llorona Retires The Hollering From Her Ears -- Reincarnation -- Where The Wild Tongues Are -- Calexico -- Leaving -- Holding The Night Sky -- Prayer -- Gathering The Fragments -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- About The Author.
