
Rebecca Gayle Howell (ed.)
et al.
Published online:
18 May 2023
Published in print:
07 March 2023
Online ISBN:
9780813197418
Print ISBN:
9780813182438
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Girmay, Aracelis, 'Santa Ana of Grocery Carts', in Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones, and Emily J. Jalloul (eds), What Things Cost: an anthology for the people (Lexington, KY , 2023; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 18 May 2023), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813182438.003.0129, accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
Extract
Santa Ana of grocery carts, truckers,eggs in the kitchen at 4 a.m., nurses, cleaning ladies,the saints of ironing, the saintsof tortillas. Santa Ana of cross-guards, tomato pickers,bakeries of bread in pinks & yellows, sugars.Santa Ana of Cambodia, Viet Nam, Aztlándown Bristol & Raitt. Santa Ana.Boulevards of red lips, beauty salons, boom boxes, droneof barbershop clippers fading tall Vincent’s head, schoolyards,the workshop architects, mechanics.Santa Ana of mothers, radiators, trains.Santa Ana of barbecues.Santa Ana of Trujillos, Sampsons, & Agustíns,Zuly & Xochit with their twin lampish skins.Santa Ana of cholas, bangs, & spray.Santa Ana of AquaNet, altars,the glitter & shineof 99 cent stores, taco trocas, churches, of bells,hallelujahs & center fields, aprons,of winds, collard greens, & lemon cakein Ms. Davenport’s kitchen,sweat, sweat over the stove. Santa Anaof polka-dots, chicharonnes, Aztecs, African Fields, colombianas,sun’s children, vanished children. Santa Ana of orales.Santa Ana of hairnets.Patron saint of kitchens, asphalt, banana trees,bless us if you are capable of blessing.When we started, there were cousins & two parents,now everything lost has been to you.The house, axed, & opossumsgone. Abrigette & her husband John.& the schoolyard boys underneath the ground,undressed so thoroughly by your thousand mouths, Santa Ana,let that beenough.
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