Читать книгу They Call Me Güero - David Bowles - Страница 8

BORDERLANDS

Sixty miles wide

on either side

of the river,

my people’s home

stretches from gulf

to mountain pass.

These borderlands,

strip of frontier,

home of hardy plants.

The thorn forest

with its black willows,

Texas ebony, mesquite,

huisache and brasil.

Transplanted fields

of corn and onion,

sorghum and sugarcane.

Foreign orchards

of ruby red grapefruit

white with flowers.

Native brush

rainbow bright

with purple sage,

rock rose, manzanilla

and hackberry fruit.

Beyond its edges spreads

the wild desert,

harsh and lovely

like a barrel cactus

in sunny bloom.