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Sebastian Paramo - After El Hombre by Rufino Tamayo

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A poem inspired by Rufino Tamayo's piece El Hombre. I wanted to write into the root of my own identity and this painting really spoke to me as someone born in Dallas and the son of Mexican immigrants.

{ inspired by "After El Hombre" by Rufino Tamayo }

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What will become my name
when I become a giant.
What if I wear nothing but bark.
A tree,
the people’s shadow, the loom over loam.
Who says the earth was solid like bedrock or
soft like the melt of mud. Who wouldn’t
learn to plant their feet
deep until there is
no tug when I pull?
Why not root here, let my arms
branch & reach for a language
fit for yearning: constellations. What will my lineage say
when you cut me to a stump. What dog will stay with me
when touching the sky felt distant, a memory?
Chocolate flowers’ bloom,
tell me what does the sky say now
when our days grow darker, when we wonder
what kingdom will remain?

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from collective | connection, released September 7, 2019

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