This Thursday and Friday Lisa Cortez Walden directs A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying at the Palo Alto Performing Arts Center, a theatrical presentation of poetry and prose by Laurie Ann Guerrero featuring Jesse Borrego, Selena Sue Navarro, and Monessa Esquivel, with artwork by Erick Bosse and music by the Marco Cholo Quintet. Guerrero is a creative writing instructor at Palo Alto College. Her chapbook, Babies Under The Skin was chosen for publication for the Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Award, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye.
NOTES ON ASHES
I watched fire
those days
the men kicked
about in their boots.
I watched their boots.
I watched their boots
dance with flames—
ostrich, alligator.
I wanted to tease.
I wanted to tease fire.
I wanted to run
my finger over the fickle
head, stroke the hot
breath like a kitten’s
delicate skull.
— Laurie Ann Guerrero
Free; 11:30am, Thursday April 19 and 7pm Friday April 20, Palo Alto College Performing Arts Center, 1400 W Villaret, (210) 486-3000, alamo.edu/pac/. To see a calendar of all National Poetry Month events in San Antonio, go to npmsa2012.com.
