The Meadow Annual Literary Arts Journal 2021

104 The Meadow Shades of Blue Out of the Blue Karla Linn Merrifield for Dana Miller and Penny Bowers I’ll leave you with a random Ayala tune. Listening to this for the first time as I write. My masseuse, out of Canada, half Tuscarora, email-mentioned this fine gentleman last week. I Googled his name, picked this YouTube video to send you, my Quixote quicksilver pixie. Ever seen an acoustic guitar like his la monada— oval sound hole in its held-high upper shoulder? And, really, are those nylon strings? ¿por qué? Lo, tho’, his Gothic setting—ornately-statued cathedral— holy intimate acoustics, mi mama! Yo, let us go away, you, me, meet him at that many-cultured crossroads. Gabriel is truly the Yaqui angel for our moment. He makes me want to make love. Does he you?

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