Tierra de Sangre
By Noo
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Tierra
The earth is hot and dry
Cracked and secret
Clandestine
Taciturn
Red earth for red deeds
Sacrificio
Obsidian knife into flesh
Acolnahuacti drinks until he’s no longer thirsty
Sacrifice sustains all
The moon, the stars and the earth
It could have been
Quail or
Dogs or
Feathers or
Flowers
But no, it’s you, my dear,
It’s you
The eagles and jaguars
Breathe a sigh of relief
Today’s not their day
Now’s not the time
For the offering of butterflies and hummingbirds
Today, it’s blood from
Your tongue and
Your earlobe and
Everything springs from buried bodies
Parts are displayed
Painted, bleached and stored
Skin relics
Flayed divine
Bow down child
Go pure into the sun
Tierra
The earth is hot and dry
Cracked and secret
Clandestine
Taciturn
Red earth for red deeds
Los desaparecidos
Red is covered with green
Soil and grass to resemble pasture
But we poke through
There’s no hiding us
Our bones are
Blackened
Hardened
Elbows and kneecaps
Mixed with the metal of
Coins and buttons and rings
Los Zetos stops the buses
Check our phones and
Then we fight like gladiators
From ancient Rome
With machetes
Knives
Clubs
Whatever we can get our hands on
When it’s over
We burn and disappear into the earth
On la carretera de la muerte
Tierra
The earth is hot and dry
Cracked and secret
Clandestine
Taciturn
Red earth for red deeds
La canción de la madre
Was I the woman I intended to be?
Dutiful wife
Whore by consent
Victim by chance
The little girl I was
A ghost in an ice cream parlour
In Mérida
Wide eyed and vanished
Long gone
Now I’m in the hot red earth
While my insides explode
And on this border that I nearly crossed
I died before my baby
I could still feel her heartbeat
Drum drum
As the black
Rained down
Tierra
The earth is hot and dry
Cracked and secret
Clandestine
Taciturn
Red earth for red deeds.
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Hot and dark, full of death
Hot and dark, full of death and lost voices.
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