D. Ellis Phelpsalong the rio grande among carnelian melons & orange groves you can hear the coyotes crooning to a moon wide and bright as the river she loves naomi crossed this borderland for freedom cradling her infant son in her arms smothering his cries to quiet him: she cupped his mouth with her warm brown hand ~ she comes each week to clean solo hablo un poquito español i speak only a little spanish i say she speaks no english and so we agree to teach each other laughing a lot at the language barrier ~ we are standing in the kitchen with her naked toddler son the one she cradled and silenced in the box car where the coyotaje had hidden them the one she rode from her beloved guatemala to tejas so many hours con muchas otras desplazadas so many displaced ~ & when the rocking of the hot hot box did not stop her son’s crying i had to cover his mouth with my hands she says and just at this her son has to go & does not know he does not know how his mother’s hands have just cleaned this tile how she has scrubbed & cupped to save him and so he lets his urine: an easy yellow flow on the floor but quick his mother cups her hands to catch it… |
So we travel on earth seeking the terrain of Poetry, walking through wilderness and empty landscape or visiting those ancient sites like Dholavira in far-western Gujarat, or Mykenai in the Greek Peloponnese, or the Arawak campsite on eastern Carriacou in the Grenadine Windward Isles, pursuing that authenticity of experience in a form of antique material reality...
These are places, strange and vague situations where death is manifold and thoroughly extant to the careful eye. There are women’s bangles made of shell to be picked up from the saline dust or small copper beads and thin chert blades, or tiny obsidian arrow-heads that can be unhidden and disclosed beneath those bloody grey walls about the Lion Gate, or beautiful indented potsherds and ceramic fragments at the waterline where the Atlantic rolls out its long blue visceral waves...
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