Running Past
Monique Soria

 

 

we ran under the

 

green light of the pecan grove

 

now the trees are bare

 

 

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Monique Soria is a member of the Tucson writing group Mujeres Que Escriben. Her poems are included in Spiral Orb Five: A Poetic Inventory of Saguaro National Park, in the book This Piece of Earth: Images and Words from Tumamoc Hill, and in Journal of the Southwest Volume 57 Summer-Autumn 2015. Her self-description: a mix of chutzpah, joie de vivre and la creencia que somos todos una familia.