Naomi Shihab Nye

 If this is what we studied for, heads bent over books at wooden desks engraved with the names of the dead, then I have a new feeling for subtraction.Olive trees, three acres slashed equals zero zero zero. That’s my address. The grade on my pa [...]

Pablo Tamayo is moving today, to stay with his brother-in-law on Nueces Street till he can find another house. "Don't worry so much," he told me over the fence. "I'm a beat-up man, my wife is an old lady, I always told you the roof was gonna fall." [...]