Statement re poem: This poem began as a hybrid using random lines from books by LatinX writers in a course offered by the wonderful poet and teacher, Valerie Martinez. I’ve changed it quite a bit, but that was the original impulse. We think about water and the conservation of it a lot here in New Mexico, so taking the shape it did fell to hand rather instinctively.

Mikki Aronoff, has work published or forthcoming in Flash Boulevard, New World Writing, MacQueen’s Quinterly, ThimbleLit, The Phare, The Ekphrastic Review, The Fortnightly Review, Milk Candy Review, Tiny Molecules, The Disappointed Housewife, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Mslexia, and elsewhere. Her stories and poems have received Pushcart and Best Microfiction nominations.