Indigenous herdsmen must prosper in the afterlife / must one day / slay / petite bourgeois / already / mount resistance / barter peyote / degrade / the capital a artifact / embrace kitsch / embrace other things / embrace others

Unlike you / they don’t conflate/ the world / with wound / history / the wound / too many

decades / too many / salt deposits / silo / water from the ground / hulled

residue / of gaslit treaty / post-warranty / a bridge / the word they use for skin /

Trickster / isn't the half of it / the point /

Was not the whole / the whole being

The white man’s dirt / still inside / a dirty dream

Camille Carter is a writer, poet, educator, and traveler. Her recent work appears in Poetry, SWWIM Every day, Cider Press Review, Cherry Tree, and elsewhere. She currently resides in New York, where she is a PhD student in Comparative Literature.

Martín Ramírez (1895-1960) was born in Jalisco, Mexico. Ramírez immigrated to the United States in 1925, at age 30, leaving behind his wife Ana and their four children. He worked on the railroads and in the mines in California for several years before he was arrested for reasons unclear in 1931. He was later also diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia and subsequently moved through a series of psychiatric institutions until 1948, when he was sent to DeWitt, where he remained until his death in 1963. While at DeWitt, Ramírez turned to drawing as a primary means of expression. In recent years, Ramírez has been the subject of solo exhibitions at numerous venues throughout North America and Europe, including the Centro cultural/Arte contemporáneo, Mexico City (1989); American Folk Art Museum, New York (2007, 2009); and Museo nacional centro de arte Reína Sofía, Madrid (2010). [Bio courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]