Rural and Migrant Women
This year the second year
we went to Binghamton New York
a town like Ansonia Connecticut
where I was born we went to
a Holiday Inn in Binghamton
beige and green with free coffee
a lukewarm swimming pool the Holiday Inn
smells like air freshner if air freshner
were a fake pine tree.
We were there to teach
story telling a little writing too
we need each other’s stories
to rural and migrant women
brought together once a year
by one of those wonderful organizations
taking care of the women and their
many beautiful children
by teaching them by helping them
Rural and Migrant Ministries
I am sure everyone I know
would sponsor a woman to go
to Binghamton New York her only holiday
once a year to a hotel for two days to eat
whatever she likes her children too
to dress up in spectacular dresses
for the Big Banquet and dance and sing
take yoga classes and listen to speakers
in Spanish and English tell them what they know
do yoga and salsa in a big room embrace
one another and figure out what it means
to have documents and what it means to have
children and what it means to build a better life.