3RD SPIRIT 

maybe i'll feel safe

once the smoke covers

this body, holy land

anointed

*coqui compana*

this body aches

contaminated

toxins patented

a slow death

enduring, colonial,

intergenerational

seeds sterilized

naturalized tree

an apple falls

an offering to earth

the soil remembers us

no child left behind

in ESL round-ups

gen pop skin marked

the right shade

saharan sand

visible spirit

marks ancestral

path

the roach endures

the apple doesn't