Mexican Garden
A country that grows by milpa. Criollo corn planted at the Pleiades by Mayan farmers in Yucatán, the Three Sisters stacked across an Oaxacan slope, chinampas cultivated since the fifteenth century in Xochimilco, epazote volunteering by a Mexico City wall, cilantro and hierba santa edging a Veracruz patch, nopales trained on a Hidalgo fence, criollo tomatoes saved by the abuela, hoja santa shading a Tlaxcala bed — a garden built on milpa logic, native seed, and the rain that arrives in late May.