Poetry Month Prompt #19

April 19: 

When a skull is discovered where it doesn’t belong what happens? Are other bones found? Any artifacts of the victim(?) Found after a flood? Create a life for this person and make their life a little bit relevant. 

From the Muse Library: When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz. “I write hungry sentences,” Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, “because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them.” This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. Diaz holds a MFA from Old Dominion University and won a Pulitzer for her second book of poems, Postcolonial Love Poem .