Orchard Crown and Orbital Crows

by George Naranjo Orchard Crowns and Orbital Crows gathers nineteen poems that keep one foot in the garden and one eye on the sky. George Naranjo writes through Madre and Papi's tended plot, a grandmother's temple, and the myths of Demeter and Icarus, letting crows stand watch over grief, addiction, and a father's rotting machete handle. Spanish endearments sit next to cosmic imagery, and a supernova's slow collapse starts to sound a lot like a family quietly coming apart. These are poems about inheritance, in every form it takes: what's planted, what's lost, what still insists on blooming after the harvest. Naranjo's voice feels just as at home in myth as it does on a city block. If you've ever looked at your family and then at the stars and wondered which one made you, this book is for you.