I am merely posing for a photograph.

Remember, when the Nomenclature

stops you, tell them that—“Sirs, he was posing

for my camera, that is all.” . . . yes, that may just work.

Juan Felipe Herrara  I am merely posing for the camera

Poet. Artist. Teacher. Activist. Writer. Poet Laureate of California.

“Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you – the speakers around you – and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that’s who forms our poetics.”

~Juan Felipe Herrara