Archive for December, 2004
La Viejita de Sonora
December 2004. From the book "This Line Drawn Across Footprints" (2007).There is a woman in Sonora, México who has a voice like cracked adobe. She stands outside her casita at noon and sings as loud as her small lungs will let her into the still bright desert sky. People think she is completamente loca. But other people come and they pay la viejita to sing [...]

