Cover
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Foreword
The Sky Knows Itself—Place
A Letter to the Headwaters from This Place
A Letter to Guillermo Concerning Why I Must Write
A Letter About Memory on my Abuelito’s 87th Birthday
A Letter to K. Translating Spanish
A Letter to K. About Rain and Hammers
a letter from my journal to juan
What Innate Star Guided Her—Hope
A Letter to the Headwaters About Blackbirds, Hollow Core Doors and Other Gifts
An Open Letter Upon Seeing the Stars In A New Way
To Whom It May Concern (Cami I):
A Letter to the Graduating Class of 2008, Coronado High School, Gallina, New Mexico
A Letter to an Adopted Son
A Letter, Of Sorts, To My Agapetos Somatiko Eidei
Staying is Losing—Outsiders
A Letter to the Headwaters from the Sovereign Banks of the Conejos
A Letter from the Confluence of a Very Old River, Ghosts, and a Few Brief Moments of Light
A Letter to the Headwaters About Remembering My Father in the Future,
A Letter for the Unidentified Mexican National Who Died at 5:00 p.m. Somewhere Between San Luis and Manassa, His Van Rolling 3¼Times
Some Measure of Mercy—Justice
A Letter to the Headwaters Regarding a Boy’s Memory
To Whom It May Concern (Cami II):
A letter to the parents of the San Luis Valley
A Letter to the Headwaters from the Radical Center
a letter to Pablo about hope
Ella—The Land
A Letter to the Headwaters Concerning What is Not There
A Letter to Leopold Upon Reading “The River of the Mother of God”
An Open Letter on December 20th
It is Our Imperfections—Resilience
A Letter to the Headwaters from My River Dream,
A Letter to Mumper from a 4:00 a.m. Campus
A letter to the Men of Troy Concerning the Nature of Joy
A Letter to the Men of Troy
A Letter to Guillermo, Having Missed His Call
A Letter to the Antonito High School Graduating Class of 2013 Regarding Their Book of Dreams, Happiness and Other Perpetual Things
A Letter to the Men of Troy, Where I Explain A Few Things
A Letter Regarding the Palace of Lost Fish