rain poem

In their original form, these poems did not have titles. Due to stylistic requirements on the part of the magazine, titles were included. By not titling these poems, I was working in the style of Rex Lee Jim’s 1995 collection saad, in which none of the Diné language poems had titles. It was also my intention to refuse to lasso the poem’s “aboutness” because the content and the language of the poems are outside restriction or classification. If given the option, I would still leave these poems untitled.