Guatemalan Regime

Guatemalan Regime

Zorika Petic

Today
it is the killed in Guatemala,
some men who said no.
The stories are old to me.
I have never been in Guatemala.
The widows
are destitute as pain.
One climbs
a ravine in a lightning
storm to reach her empty home.
I, or another I,
must have climbed the ravine
with her long ago,
at the twilight of memory.
She is climbing the ravine in
lightning and rain.
I want to be sure, and can't,
that I am without blame
for any of this.
--Zorika Petic


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