Ajua, mis cabrones cuatachones, con/sapos y cangrejos
            y notas hechizeras en momentos pendejos,
                 ca-ta-túm, ca-túm-ba, ca-túm!

               poetry/stories
                 vignettes/articles/
               notes on the human condition
                 of Chicanos & pícaros,

               words & hopes
               within soulmind....

                    HECHIZOSPELLS
                                 by Ricardo Sánchez

                    Creative Series No.4
            Chicano Studies Center-Publications
            University of California, Los Angeles
       405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, California 90024

The Creative Series

Literature and the arts are the most intimate reflection of man's growth as he passes through time. With this principle, the Creative Series was initiated as a proscenium for the works of Chicano artists of importance and influence. The Creative Series publishes short stories, poems, prose; all expressions of the Chicano artistic renaissance.

  Author
  Ricardo Sánchez,Ph.D.

  Artist
  Willie Herrón

  Design and Production

  Cover and chapter heading design & lettering by
  SERENA SHARP, UCLA Publications Service

  ROBERTO CABELLO-ARGANDOÑA
  DUKARDO HINESTROSA
  VICENTE A. MADRID
  JUAN J. SÁNCHEZ
  SAUL SOLACHE
  ALICIA TEICHMAN
  DORA TORRES

  Editors
  TERESA McKENNA, Comparative Literature, UCLA
  REYNALDO FLORES MACIAS, Education, UCLA
  JUAN GOMEZ-QUIÑONES, History, UCLA

  Nota de Los Editores:
  La voluntad, el estilo y los textos del autor fueron repetados al máximo.

  © Copyright 1976 by Ricardo Sánchez.  All rights reserved.
  © Copyright 1976, all Drawings and Paintings, 
    including cover, by Willie Herrón

  Dedicated to those
    who struggle to create
     freedom/meaning and sense of life,

  to those who share without reservations
            el proceso de la vida,
       and those who nurture truth and justice,
   to those who have survived and those
       future generations
      who will express liberation with their lives...

  Para Heriberto Terán, poeta
       muerto en la batalla;
       Raúl Salinas, pinto y, poeta;
     Reimundo "Tigre" Pérez, voz
       como clarín movimientista;
     Abelardo Delgado, viejo loco y, carnal;
     Rubén Sandoval, aboga y carnal;
       y para la bella y
       sagrada memoria
                de mi
          Pedro-Cuauhtémoc, hijito
                 Que dejastes
            huellas escritas
                 en mi pensar/sentir

                                                 
       Sentimiento y respeto...
    -Hacia la liberación popular
                  y vámonos recio, raza-

  X      Some thoughts: on writing(a quite quasi-preface)  
 

CONTENTS     NOTES ON THE HUMAN CONDITION
  2      Hechizos:  Pieces of life
  6      On Being:  Hacia la liberación popular
 31      La Pinta/Slammer/The Joint:  thoughts and ahuites
 45      Letter to Manuel Peralta:  Melo
 49      Caras y más-caras, A-men!
 59      It Was After
 64      VACHA's chronchis night

               POETRY
 72      Tiers/tears
 74      Batos de Los
 76      Ain't nuttin' for a stepper
 77      Soledad was a girl's name
 80      Out/parole
 81      Otra vez
 85      Splinterings
 88      Oceanic poverty
 90      After thoughts 
 91      World
 92      Rik-Ser:  my progeny
 94      Son:  my love destroys you slowly
 96      Teresa
 98      Rikárd
100      This, too
102      A.M. bleakness, somewhere, el or sub or street
105      Libertad was born in primavera 
109      El hechizo envuelto anti-hechizo en el confuso
113      Pere     grino    soy!
118      Misiva to a carnal
124      Llorido y lamento en extremo
126      Pienso y canto:  1970 Chicanismo
127      Mish/mesh
128      Hielo y hechizo
130      Bronce
132      El duelo aspira/ or madness has a funny hue
134      Quest
136      Ojos
138      Scowl
140      San Antonio phantasmagoria
141      Aveces la luz es oscura
143      Sueño(s)
144      Homing
149      Vista
150      Barrios of the world
152      Tiempo navideño
156      Grano:  Rana Voice
160      Conjointed d.c. meeting
163      Semblance
164      Latinos
166      Lejos
168      Siendo/being
169      More than
171      Amidst
173      Evolution:  madness/unsanity
182      Transience
184      Toward
190      Preface to poem entitled:  Santos Rodríguez
196      Santos Rodríguez
205      Viento, history, & drum
215      Tier rapping:  a recollection
216      Las Vegas musing
217      Voces:  retroceo del pasado
222      Oye, Pito, ésta es:  la vida bruta de un boy
230      Teresa, last night
232      Año que te has ido
233      El lo frágil
234      Little, wounded animal's eyes
236      Mi'ja
237      Cútis/furia
239      La poesía brota
240      To/for Hallack McCord, Denver friend, Death, be not soft
244      Sipping sourmash/jack d/black w/coke
245      Obrando
246      Carnal Jeantet
247      Sí, te quiero
248      Llueve y gotéa
249      Déjà vu-ing image of hope
250      Smile floating
251      Over non clover of grinding trips
252      Dream(s):  hacia lo sensual
254      Mañanitas en confe
255      Just after
257      Lleno
259      H.J.:  Future?
260      Neo's and archetypes
262      Confe de Brotherhood Awareness
269      Linear grasping
271      Alan, by nephew
274      Orale, Tapón,lalo
276      Capped
277      3rd world umbrage
280      M.S.W. Mania
281      En la sangre
282      Poder is
283      Quién/answer
285      We don't lose
286      Scholastic linkages
287      Movi
289      Fridays belong to friends, sometimes

        ESTOS POEMAS LOS DEDICO
294      Conocí tu realidad, hijito
301      Ni Xipe, chavito
304      Ese, pues, nichis
307      Coyúntate, mujer
313      Crítica for an arse poeticus
320      Dos momentos en mejicles
             1.  Notas
             2.  Cleta y Neta