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Los Mochis, 1993

Andrea Dezubiria


Los Mochis, 1993

 

The year before we marry, we’ve come a thousand miles by motorcycle

to this town in Mexico. We leave the’79 Goldwing parked

and wander up and down the dusty streets, waiting for our laundry.

Hand in hand, we might as well be in Paris, the way we adore

everything: the rowdy joy of boys scrambling for a plastic basketball,

rusty air conditioner as hoop, the sugar from churros we lick off our fingers

and wipe on our jeans, the lopsided sounds of a band paid in beer.

 

When the beginning of rain chases us back to the motel, you are restless

in the yellow stucco room and go out into the night. Your bike engine roars

then recedes into the sounds of distant traffic and the leaky faucet.

I lean into my notebook recording whispers to my future self that say:

Don’t forget. And wake to you in the doorway, backlit, smiling, holding out

a paper plate of grilled onions and meat as if offering me the moon.

 

 

Photo Credit: Wonderlane  Antique Mexican folk art painting, Jardin de los Siervas, Dulce Hogar. 

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About Andrea Dezubiria

Andrea Farber De Zubiria works as a Physical Therapist with people with chronic pain. She lives in Fresno. California with her husband, daughters and therapy chickens. Her poetry has been previously published n The San Joaquin Review and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.

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