这首于2015年9月1日创作的诗歌题为《2014年在新墨西哥州布拉齐托和我的姐妹萨拉一起剥绿番椒》，献给那些从此在美国扎根的劳工，并讲述了他们在美国安家立业的奋斗史：“老爸费利佩1896年跨境来美，在自家后院一棵树下用麻包袋做成一个土‘冰箱’，用来冷藏食品和老妈亲手做的熟牛肉罐头。……那时有一头名叫‘王子’的黑马拉犁耕地。……人们在田地中播种劳作，1932年用砖坯建起了一教堂，就这样在这里安下家来。”

A poet’s tribute to those who work

On Labor Day, Americans honor workers’ contributions to the United States. The parents of the current U.S. poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, provided for their children as migrant laborers, first on farms in Texas and later in California. Today, the U.S. agricultural economy depends on roughly 1 million hired farmworkers, a third of whom work in California and Texas.

“My father was a laborer from the start,” Herrera said. “He came up to the United States in the 1890s and worked at small ranches in the fields picking grapes, and my mother did as well.” (Herrera was born to a 66-year-old father.)

In a poem written for ShareAmerica, Herrera recalls the lives of his forebears while he and his sister prepare a meal using chiles that were picked by today’s laborers.

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