Conduzco y conduces —carpoolers & Catholics— conduction wires to Latin.   “Brought together” —heads bowed as if praying— these women make   strange communion— wafer after wafer, paper-thin shavings from   ingots of germanium. Solder-stitch to populate breadboard to motherboard   or read ohm resistors —by their bands of color— in circuit board syntax.   Solid state switches— a nascent ancient rotary & tin can to starlight. — Chicana Cherríe Moraga writing on her mother’s ‘piecework’ for the nearby electronics plant   explains how her mother nightly sat before the TV ‘wrapping copper wires into the backs of   circuit boards.’ Braiding, I thought, to parse & plait those wires that would light the very images   she watched. I then looked up in Cosmo that knot-work. French, Dutch, Halo, Fishtail,   Milkmaid, Spiral, & Braid to Bun —those chongos my nana made over the years—the yank   & tugged-tie, the brush-work through the hair of sus hijas that sometimes produced a spark.