Author Archives | Greg Candela
Gregory L. Candela is a professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico where he taught creative writing, literature, theatre, technical writing and composition. He has published scholarly essays on African-American and American literature. He's published a book of poems: Surfing New Mexico (Crones Unlimited, 2001).
Weekly Poem: FIRST SHA’LA’KO
The men come down
in twos and threes South
to dust-dry Zuni River:
surround and screen
six tall Sha’la’ko of the
snapping beaks and hooting.
Up the hill the small
Zuni girl chops at
stacked juniper with
a sharp, man- sized axe:
smoke comes East swings
around North then West...
24. September 2013
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