Over the past decade over 350 women around the city of Jua rez, Mexico, have been raped and murdered. The remains of these brutalized young women continue to be found scattered in the parched desert, vacant city lots, and roadside ditches. Others are never found. Agosi n, through her words and images, invites her readers to bear witness to the reality that the grieving families of the disappeared and murdered young women face every day.

"Afterword: Poems by Guadalupe Morfin": p. [131]-143.

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Secrets in the sand : the young women of Juarez / Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman No plants or rocks All we know about them Orphanhood And the night was a precipice Among the clouds With sorrowful hearts Always at the edge Suddenly the city She crossed borders Sometimes She stands on tiptoe Nothing remains I will tell you about them I approach my nocturnal garden I don't know who I will find It is that feeling Only death I have wandered the countryside Borders Memory is the only witness Sometimes I imagine them That night Dare They continue growing Before death justice Rain Wonder News reports

She crosses borders It was this living with death Questions in the shadows November 1 Death rattles The Earth Sorrow Suddenly Pain She ebbs and flows You return light of provisions And the sea The learning was in the loving Sand Learning Silence Poppies Only memory Perhaps we should not have Silence And her dream I had no other option She chooses In the summer Long and deep is the desert night In Ciudad Juarez festive lights The young girl of Ciudad Juarez Poem regarding desert water / Guadalupe Morfin Land of ashes / Guadalupe Morfin.