The bilingual poetry and stories of Salvadoran writer Jorge Argueta have been an invaluable resource in this author's classroom. She has used poems from "Talking with Mother Earth" for homework and class analysis during a study of ecosystems, the story "Xochitl and the Flowers" to lead into persuasive writing, and "Bean Soup" to teach personification, similes, and beautiful poetic language. In this article, the author describes how she used the poetry of Argueta to help students express their feelings about leaving one country for another. (Contains 3 notes and 4 resources.)