pushing me through the
fields. I would hop on
one leg as if playing hopscotch, and I’d do different
tricks to not get caught by
a bright spotted circle.
I won every time. I was
a gullible kid who could
easily be entertained. We
slept and were fed during
the day, and traveled at
night. We traveled from
Mexico to Arizona by foot.
So much travel, and my
faded memory has not yet
forgotten those “American”
beans. There were people
who took us into their
homes and fed us. Beans
were popular, but they
weren’t the same ones I
was used to. They were
nothi