A row of palms on Cesar Chavez face off with a tenacious light pole.

Between the stuccoed homes
and potholed street of my fair Los,
grows traces of nature’s reminder
to reach for the sky.
Plant life extends its extremities to find a spot in the sun.
It stretches as high as it can
to get a taste of warmth,
a taste of heaven.

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Rafael Cardenas can be reached at eastsiderwriter@gmail.com

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