AARON A. ABEYTA (Chicano) is a Colorado native, poet, professor, and mayor of his hometown, Antonito. He can be found online at aaronabeytapoet.com.
“None of us remembers a time before her. She had with her three spirits we could not see or feel or imagine; they were with her, the shaman said, to protect her.” Writer and poet Aaron Abeyta contemplates ancestral guidance and protection in this excerpt from the Kinship book series.
