La Tortillera Standing in the gallery, remembering--tortillitas para Juan, tortillitas para Juan-- remembering and smiling. The docent is amused and gives me a print of the painting. I think of it as a portrait of you, on your knees before the metate, just a child cooking for a family. Pat-pat, pat-pat, tortillitas para Juan, tortillitas para Juan, masa becomes tortillas between my mother’s hands. Richard Garcia Richard Garcia's poetry books include The Other Odyssey, Dream Horse Press, 2014, The Chair, BOA 2015, and Porridge, Press 53, 2016. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. He has won a Pushcart prize and has been in Best American Poetry. He lives in Charleston, S.C.
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