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April 16, 2012

April Showers

They say that spring
brings rebirth
but for many children
it means an abrupt end to
school and
friends.

Nourishing rain
brings work
cultivating crops
of corn and
soybean.
They need tending,
weeding from
young hands.

They say that spring
brings rebirth
but I know that
April showers
bring
migrant flowers.
by Miguel M. Morales
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Miguel M. Morales

Miguel M. Morales
Miguel grew up in Texas working as a migrant/seasonal farmworker. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and an alum of VONA Voices and of the Macondo Writers Workshop.
Miguel is co-editor of Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando and Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

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