FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: HISTORIC LANDMARKS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words historic and/or landmark, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on May 17th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Historic Landmarks will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, May 18th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Remember When Everything Was Easy


Remember how everything was easy,

like the time abuelo got you a shrimp 

cocktail when your seven-year old self

was sad about something or just because

he wanted to make you feel happy?


Remember how everything was easy,

like the time a broomstick was a horse,

your seven-year old self would ride it

like el llanero solitario for hours, whose

name became the Lone Ranger when

you came to America a year later.


Remember how everything was easy,

we would go every Friday to The Original

Barbecue in Los Angeles with the family.

It was my favorite place to eat. My eight-

year self never had it so good. So many

people and places would soon be gone,

but not in my memories or my heart.


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