rainbows shatter into
iris glare.
Dreams break into
reality:
shadows bare.
But where’s the heart.
Stars collapse behind
what’s left –shard.
Elements: obsidian/sin tum
Yucatec Maya burned
rocks –blare.
Mind stream cut in mean:
mien brawn silex.
Thoughts flare.
Inside Pleiades constellations
radiates in between or
betwixt soul [aura presence].
Clasp across generations in
parents steps indivisible:
breaths cut into jade semblance.
Carry it within break
bread as you rest.
Others across/parallels bled.
Suns eclipse the four shades.
Then crystal pool
refracts hawks/eagles
grasp eyes fair.
In this vein earth
infused in DNA.
Purple/black lush grain.
A mothers touch silk –web
tone earth brawn flux.
Drizzle of gold whirlpool sky.
Tribes caught in the skin:
Maroon dreams brought to daylight.
Author Bio:
J. D. Trejo-Maya was born in Celaya, Guanajuato Mexico and spent his first eight years in the small, neighboring rural pueblo of Tarimoro. In 1988, his family and he migrated to California, where he would go on to earn three degrees and develop a passion for ethno-poetic language poetry. Among his inspirations, he includes the ancient poet Netzahualcoyotl and contemporary Guatemalan Humberto Ak’Abal and Blackfeet & Gros Ventre writer James Welch. He has been published in the Nimrod International Poetry Journal, Belleville Park Pages, Star 82 Review, Visions International Review, Lost Coast Review, Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose, Altadena Poetry Review, Acentos Review, Mandala Review, and Qua Literary Fine Arts Magazine.