Da de los Muertos

Da de los Muertos is the lynchpin poem of Snake #3: Hunger Sutras, the third installment in Lemonss Snake Quartet, being published as its own chapbook/adult coloring book. The poem is based on Lemonss real, lived experience with a Da de los Muertos celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico; and though history truly comes alive, there is a sense that the authenticity of such a celebration is a thing of the past. Like the bones of a giant beast dug out of a tar pit then reassembled, it must poorly represent the living creature. Da de los Muertos intends to illuminate the dark things that scuttle out of graves carrying pieces of the newly buried back to the world to reanimate with new potential.