Photographs from outside of Monterrey, Mexico. 2000-present

La Chona, Monterrey Mexico

My kid won’t stop screaming on this airplane

Flight 

We pause for a moment under the searing sun, and I struggle to see in the distance. My sunglasses are pretty much useless after the miles and miles of flat land, some of it punctuated with dead things.

Of Men and Dreams

Brujeria

The year of recent misfortune,
I wished for a gorgeous winter garden.

Winter 2021, Texas

The war that ravaged a household drove us all out, orphans born from an ever-boggling state of existence. 

Kings Road

The pedestal I imagined Sherman Alexie to stand on imploded, and for a moment, I felt just as naïve as I had some years back when I stepped foot into Mexico. I was unable to comprehend what life would be like without the introduction to Latin America

I Would Steal Idols

Why do people say living through trauma
Makes you strong?
Sometimes it just creates little marks
Invisible and starred.

Asterisks

These colors don’t run, 
which is to say 

this criss-crossed flag, 

this faux heritage, 

this emblem of pride, 

white superiority

seems to mean something ......

southern crucifix

We beat Brock Shamos every day. We beat him with jump ropes we stole from Mr. Randall’s P.E. class, hidden in Allison’s backpack and replaced in the plastic milk crate the next day. We beat him with a steady rhythm, our little arms pulling back and s

Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra

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