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says Reid’s sculpted world canoe

Mexican Compass

A compass of US west --

San Diego

Coronado

Mission Viejo

Oceanside

Imperial Valley

Mexicali

A compass of Mexico west --

Peninsula de Baja California

Tijuana

Ensenada

La Bufadora

San Carlos

Punto Santo Tomás

A compass of histories --

Cabrillo and Drake

Alta California, Baja California

1821 Mexico, 1846 California

Santa Anna, Polk

Guadalupe-Hidalgo

A compass of language --

indigenista, español, inglés, estadounidense

californio/a

chicano/a

la frontera

spanglish

A compass of documentation --

bracero

Undocumented

la migra

My own foreign visitor visa

A compass of day-out lunch --

tortilla y salsa

buñuelos

ensalada mixta

pescado a la veracruzana

polvorones de canele

nicuatole

cerveza Dos Equis

A compass of death --

la tienda de esqueletos

for sale and sold

three skeleton-figurines

the women flamenco-elegant

in long dress, flower at hip and cigar smoking

Diego Rivera-Frida Kahlo vivid

the man eye-socketed