Toys, Robert Fuentes larger version

from ta(la)ya | Craig Santos Perez

for my grandfather                                     

 

threads suspended from ceiling hooks

                        ~

he points to the ceiling of his small apartment in fairfield

 

 

            “you hold the nicho like this” he says       “and the nasa around your fingers like this”  –  his hand of

 

 

                                    ghost                knot                                        

                                                tight                  weave and pull   cross-

                                                           

   

“like this”           he says his hands                      ~

 

            ~

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