Nataraja Notes and Other Selected Poems

Native-born to Mexico they fell in love at first sight(my parents) in Guadalajara, they married, then, like the conquistadores of old forged northward and conquered, settled among the foothills of northern California in the early 50s (I incarnated near Sutter creek). Childhood was ravaged, consumed by rivers, salmon, oak, cries of the retail hawk and sun stone. They were my escape, and appeased my hunger.