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 50’s (i incarnated near sutter creek)…. childhood was ravaged, consum’d by rivers, salmon, oak, cries of the redtail hawk and sun stone….they were my escape, and appeas’d my hunger….