Strawberry Moon

Anita Endrezze, Yaqui, has published several poetry and short story collections. This poem of hers appears in When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, edited by Joy Harjo (2020). The following is an excerpt of Endrezze's poem, “The Wall”:

A wall made of Berlin. A wall made for tunneling.
A beautiful wall of taco trucks.
A wall of silent stars and migratory songs.
This wall of solar panels and holy light,
panels of compressed cheetos,
topped not by barbed wire but sprouting
avocado seeds, those Aztec testicles. 
A wall to keep Us in and Them out.

Tonight the Governor of California made a fierce speech about the racist violence ordered in Los Angeles by the President of the USA. The speech is a little shorter than nine minutes. This governor decided not to shut up and capitulate. And then the strawberry moon rose. (Sharper with the black triangles.)