Somewhere in Mesoamérica,
an eagle warrior drinks
Bitter Water
from a pottery tumbler.
Two beans the serving,
one for the crone
and one for the drink itself.
Somewhere near Yucatan,
a gleaming conqueror takes
La Malinche
as a native lover.
Two tongues to serve him,
one for España
and one for the Nahuatl.
Somewhere in Tenochtitlán,
the Speaker now reaps
bitter harvest
from a kingly welcome.
One xocolātl,
one for the feathered serpent,
El Conquistador.
Footnotes:
xocolātl : the original word for chocolate. Say it shoko-lat-l
Nahuatl : language of the Aztecs/some central American indigenous populations c.1510 (and before and since)
