Rinconcito is a special little corner in Somos en escrito for short writings: a single poem, a short story, a memoir, flash fiction, and the like. Two poems of Captivity and Stardust The Education of Hastiin To’Haali Kill the Indian, save the man. - Motto of the Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania He arrived in 1882 in full regalia: a magnificent mane, hoop earrings and a massive necklace, shoulders draped with a Navajo blanket, a face like a bronze god’s. It took four years to domesticate the savage and he left the school as Tom Torlino, shorn, dressed like a dandy, in a cravat and coat, the white man’s words on his tongue, back to Coyote Canyon where he rubbed desert sand over his flesh to purge the stench of captivity, resumed his duties as medicine man. Valediction Dad had earned the right to be valedictorian of his class at Fox Tech High, but it wouldn’t do to have that brown face ascend the podium on that day, No, sir! So the principal, who would lock himself in his basement office and play Stardust on his phonograph over and over, and who could be heard sobbing behind the door, put another boy in his stead; After graduation, Dad went for an interview downtown, but at the last instant withdrew his hand from the doorknob and walked home where his mother told him that the principal had called while he was out and had offered him the one college scholarship he had to give that year, perhaps out of a pang of guilt, which meant more to Dad than the speech he had prepared, and so he went from barefoot paperboy to grading papers as he listened to tapes in his study: Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely nights dreaming of a song. ![]() Robert René Galván, born in San Antonio, resides in New York City where he works as a professional musician and poet. His last collection of poems is entitled, Meteors, published by Lux Nova Press. His poetry was recently featured in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Azahares Literary Magazine, Gyroscope, Hawaii Review, Newtown Review, Panoply, Stillwater Review, West Texas Literary Review, and the Winter 2018 issue of UU World. He is a Shortlist Winner Nominee in the 2018 Adelaide Literary Award for Best Poem. Recently, his poems are featured in Puro ChicanX Writers of the 21st Century. He was educated at Texas State University, SUNY Stony Brook and the University of Texas.
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María Lysandra Hernández is a BA Writing, Literature and Publishing student with a minor in Global and Post-colonial Studies at Emerson College. She is currently the Head of Writing at Raíz Magazine, Emerson College’s bilingual and Latinx publication. For more poetry, you can find her on instagram at @marialysandrahern. |
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