in Mexico 

 

 

little lizards      
flicker      
throughout the house      

calla lilies      
breathe      
in a cool quiet room           

mango and lemon groves      
shadow      
the hot white sea      

in Mexico      

with random parts      
of myself

 


Catherine La Roque is a woman of ethnic complexity living in New Mexico and writing poetry. She has been previously published and was included in an anthology of New Mexico writers.