Yanaguana volume 1, issue 2 spring/summer 2026 a literary journal from San Antonio, Texas
Eco Poetry
Featuring poetry from members of Stone in the Stream | Roca en el Rio, a gathering of south Texas writers and artists who advocate for environmental and social justice.
Antonia Salinas Murguia
Transition
My life is Winter.
Dormant creativity.
I am one with the Earth.
Unpredictable
weather drives me in-insane.
Not one with the Earth.
Buds sprout like fire,
growing strong and determined.
Beauty has arrived.
Cycle of living
creates green energy.
Hope is powerful.
Favorite, perfect,
happy to be alive.
My life is Spring.
Listen
I sat reading about global warming
and wondered how some refused to believe.
How could that be?
It is evident the planet is changing?
We all know of weather
changing in its normal course.
Hotter where it should be cooler,
rains not coming where needed.
These rains evaporating high in the atmosphere
because of the rising temperatures.
I could not fully understand
until I took the time to learn.
Our beautiful planet has been filled
with gas fumes and our industrial plants
spews out unhealthy pollutants.
Our Earth is suffering.
I sat thinking about how much I love this planet,
our home. One of my favorite things to do is
gardening. Lake sports bring so much pleasure.
and there is nothing like a salt cleanse from oceans.
Natural spots that are incredibly unbelievable,
even when standing right in front of them.
This planet has adventures to give.
This is why we must care for it.
Everyone, I want to shout, Everyone, Listen
We must save the Earth.
We all can do a small part.
We need to be around people who believe like us.
This has to be a global effort, because we all are
responsible for protecting our home.
With eco-initiatives this can be done.
Everyone must understand and participate,
we must save our earth, not just for us,
but for every precious generation after us,
and even for Earth itself.
Mobi Warren
Perrault’s Diamonds and Toads Revised for the Sixth Extinction
What if the kind offer of well water
to salve the thirst of an old woman
was rewarded by toads slipping from
the daughter’s mouth instead of jewels,
not diamonds to bend the heart to hoard,
but toads with irises of hammered copper?
One daughter may choose to spit hard carbon
at the world’s end, but I choose the toad,
wart-chinned hag to resurrect the rain.
Texas Spiny Lizard
You merge with oak’s craggy bark,
an eight-inch statue of shingled grace.
With spangled scales of grey and black
you press your iron to the tree.
My friend finds you fearsome,
prefers the unwrinkled flow
of green anole or limpid gecko,
but in you I find the finest trick,
to vanish into bark and mirror tree,
to be one but also two, a faint blue
stripe on your belly, faint wisp of sky,
an erasure that eases “I”.
Jim Lavilla-Havelin
a flycatcher convocation
out in the meadow
across the flower tops
after the rain
this proliferation of snipping
tail feathers
hovers over a mass
of blossoms
yellow, red
all this
and a wet rabbit, too
Stone in the Stream | Roca en el Rio
Stone in the Stream | Roca en el Río is a gathering of writers and artists committed to the environment through contemplative, artistic, and activist response. They meet quarterly to share individual work grounded in an eco-poetics and to develop collective projects. These pages reflect some of their work. To contact the group, send an email to Jim LaVilla-Havelin (lavhav@ gmail.com). See more of their work here.
Jean Hackett curates Stone in the Stream | Roca en el Rio for Yanaguana.
