Friday, September 11, 2015

Back to Espanola


     Tonight I heard from a former students from Espanola Valley High School, Espanola, NM. That was my first teaching position, and I left there we years ago. My former student was in the Army, like, as were his father, sister, and other relatives. I came close to being deployed from New Mexico during Desert Shield; those thoughts on are on mind on this 9/11 anniversary.

     The poem is from "Places and Times":  https://soundcloud.com/arthur-turfa-1/espanola-valley-morning?in=arthur-turfa-1/sets/arthur-turfa

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