RUTH NAKAMURA (Humana/ Chicana/ French/ Portuguese/ Chichimec/ Tano/ Coyota) is an Indie poet from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She co-authored her first book of poems, Crow Moon, with her good friend Anna Griego. You can find her on Instagram at @veranotaos or @blackberrybramblebooks.
“With it, I also write the bones of my ancestors free.”
“The picture is black and white. Its plain black frame encloses the sixties, and the setting is the dust of New Mexico in the juniper winds of spring, the sneezing breezes of their pollen-scattering rituals.” An exquisite tribute from poet Ruth Nakamura.
“Mother, with your rebozo of cloud / wrapped around your shoulders in tatters, / hear me, my candles are lit.” Asking Mother Earth for forgiveness, poet Ruth Nakamura laments the harm humans have caused the planet.