The History of the Earth by Miguel Angel Garcia, Jr.

First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Francisco Aragón

is the history of migration
even the continents refuse
to stay in one place

one day these mountains
will bid goodnight to
an unfamiliar sky

one night our bones
will rest beneath
foreign stars

Miguel Angel Garcia, Jr. is a writer and bookseller from El Paso, Tx. He is currently studying Literature at the University of Texas at El Paso. His work has appeared in BorderSenses and Camas Magazine, and his manuscript was a finalist for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize in 2018.