Overview:
Jorge Argueta is a Salvadoran poet and children's book author who lives in Daly City. In December of 2022, Argueta was named Poet Laureate for San Mateo County, and is the first Latino to hold that title.
Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay
Has been cut in seven
Seven times smaller
Seven times sadder
Half Moon Bay
is singing
a salty song
The sea and the sky know that song
Half Moon Bay
is seven times lonelier
A wounded community shines and cries
Her sorrow is the sorrow of mountains
Half Moon Bay
is in vigil with candles and flowers in her hands
With questions, with doubts
With half of the heart crying, demanding with anger and sadness
Half Moon Bay
Still the most beautiful half of the moon
She harvests mushrooms
She harvests sunsets, nights and dawns
In Half Moon Bay the sea rumbles
and on the beautiful landscape
a boy and a girl sit on a huge pumpkin
and start to sing
— Jorge Argueta, January 26, 2023