Mother Knows Best: My Mother's Name Lucha
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by Juan Felipe Herrera |
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If she were here, she would say, "Ay, Juanito, que bonito, how beautiful, what does it mean?"
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My Mother's Name Lucha
your hands my hands
kindnesses dances silences sitting you i
El Paso Texas Segundo Barrio
Juarez 1918 1936 in gypsy dress actress
you sing i sing we sing lullabies of old
this now lines now my birth
heart now life
all life now
i bow to you
 A young Juan Felipe with Lucha Herrera Quintana.
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