"
My Motherland"by
Daisy Cubías
M
y Motherlandthe houses only ashes
in the wind
bones -- human bones --
charred
black like coals
floating in
red rivers
trees -- nude, empty
like human skeletons
burned with napalm
lakes - with floating corpses
of the tortured --
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"Zopilotes" flying (Zipilotes: vultures) |
From I Didn't Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin: An Anthology of Hispanic Poetry. (1989)
Used with permission of the author.