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tanya evanson
throwing skin - south america poems
BOLIVIA
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LAKE MOVEMENTS
"Separamos el líquido esmeralda en colinas onduladas de espuma, carne y escamas.
A lo lejos, vemos montañas sentados en cielo, el punto de incision, imperceptible."
we rush
and part the water into rolling hills
of foam and flesh and scale
we rush
onto horizon, islands sitting in sky,
their point of incision vague
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Island of the Sun, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia |
we rush
to the Island of Uros
floating on stinky totora reeds
we rush
guilt-ridden among the gringos
taking pictures of all the children
we rush
to move little on these waters,
fresh from thousand year old Inca burials
we rush
when the man with meat and potatoes
throws his batteries into the lake
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Island of Uros, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia |
we rush
to Taquile to pick muño weed and inhale softly
by the side of steep rock stairs
we rush
a terraced landscape before us
like flakes of pink fish
we rush
the terra firma, no roads, cars, bicycles or dogs,
electricity a novelty from the '90s
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On Lake Titicaca, Bolivia |
we rush
a rush of peace,
a novelty rush unto sacredness
we rush
this rush of high lake rush
that rushes into heavens
Lake Titicaca, Bolivia 10/97 |
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