July 16, 2013
Yesterday I up and went to Chimayo and Truchas
met an Uruguayan in Chimayo with a
honey voice
all rasp and rough
music a love song
gone to seed from
feeling too much and
living too hard and
painting all the same
In Truchas, a Basco raised in Cuba
with red ringed eyes
knew me for an Indian right away
Any Veda he could
lay his hands on, he said,
he had read.
Within minutes these men
and I knew each other
for wanderers
within seconds we knew
the journey ends here.
Sheban Coelho is a writer and filmmaker. Her work has been published in Chronogram magazine, Word
Riot, the anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease (Kent
University Press, foreword Tess Gallagher), NPR’s On Being blog, Albuquerque’s The Rag, Sin Fronteras Journal, Time Out Mumbai and The O&P Edge. Her professional
experience is as a producer of documentaries for television and radio outlets such as
American Public Television, National Public Radio, The Discovery Channel and BBC
Radio Four. She received a 2004 Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a 2005 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist's Fellowship and a 2007
Fulbright Research grant to experience and record everyday life in nomadic
Communities in Mongolia. Her website is a href="http://www.shebanacoelho.com/" target="_blank">www.shebanacoelho.com
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