2011 Student Writing Awards Booklet - Santa Fe Community College

v.
Sugar Shack opens,
where Apa makes pies;
coffee is served
while a grandfather punches out
the postmaster’s dad over the
loss of a Checker’s game.
vi.
Apa becomes a U.S. citizen in 1956.
She recounts of a time when
her best friend teases her about
her slip showing.
vii.
The grandchildren pull their apa on a sled,
counting the many layers of traditional dresses,
and pulling and pinching her saggy skin.
viii.
Girl twins are born,
one dies at birth
and the other at the age of fifteen
(swallowing pills)
ix.
Apa catches the coughing blood disease,
is removed from the village, and sent to
Seattle for sixteen months.
Her father gets another girlfriend
that hits him over the head
with a glass bottle while
blood streams down his face.
x.
A clan-mother shaves the children’s
heads from the lice infestation
that came to remain.
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