Crystal gazers fated lovers
Coronado appears gold dross
midnight mirage Quivera lost
indigo flames violet sun
Future past cloud the orb
Cortez arrives departs
Malintzin lives dies
broken waves powdered stars
Comancheria burning blood
Santa Fe obsidian red
volcanoes boil hot cold
life death the same ore
Rainbow portals spiral
sun moon turning faces
betrayed lovers reappear
laughter tears glisten fade
~ Denise Low
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-2009, is author of 25 award-winning books of poetry and prose. She does individual 
consulting and editing, as well as workshops. She teaches in the Baker University School of Professional and Graduate Studies. Low is co-publisher of Mammoth Publications an independent small literary press specializing in Indigenous and Mid-Plains poetry and prose. Her poetry blog has over 400 entries, and she reviews poetry for the Kansas City Star. For more, see BIOGRAPHY. Her book of poetry Mélange Block, from Red Mountain Press, Santa Fe, assembles a geological continuum of passion, grief, and American Indian and European histories.Recent online publications are from Numero Cinq, Feb. 2014. An interview is in the Feb. 2014 Museum of Americanaliterary journal. North Dakota Q.published a special issue about William Stafford, including Low’s “‘The Way It Is’: Second Sight in William Stafford’s Poetry.”Contact information is at www.deniselow.net
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