9 am in La Villita
Mayans rinse the streets
Water flows from hoses
Above in trees the bird chatter
crackles the air, stuffs it with gossip,
a hit song you’ll never hear on a radio
amidst commercials for insurance and ice cream
Turn the corner in October
You’ll see
38.5 feet Catrinas
Photo by Emily Romano
The woman skeleton on the left
Extends a butterflied finger
She towers on the shoulders of generations
the living and the dead
It’s what makes the city bloom:
the birds, the butterflies, the water, the families
we all fall from the tightrope above
this city is the net that catches our fear,
bounces it back up into joy
spanning borders, united in this moment
in this turning of the corner
in La Villita, on a crisp October day.
Photo by Emily Romano
—Emily Romano
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