Experiences
attendant to the flight instructions
trained to look relaxed
during shifts of stowed baggage,
committed, in all dialects
to warn cell phone jockeys
to cease all further commitments
for the next 2 hours.
The half moon in the half dark
punctures a light blue sky.
A small break in the curvature of the clouds
reveals a golden line, a dirt road
drawn through the blue jungle which fades
To green like the green
Gulf water fades to blue as
It approaches the shore
Highland tectonics
Shove the land masses insistently
against each other like waves in the ocean.
Towns laid out in neo-classical form,
Mayan villages hunkered down,
more mountains, tin roof tops gleaming
long ravines, corrugated landscape,
rooftops glint like stars
in remote places on highways
that have no cars.
A mountain desert zone,
brown winter fields,
pine forests on the southern rims
And streams streak with a sheer
cut through the deep ravines.
A city of soccer fields
resting on flat mountain tops
apartment complexes next to
tin roof pig-shed looking abodes,
a thin river tumbling over the spillway
a mountain of garbage spilling
over the side of a ravine.
The landing strip points
directly to the cone of a volcano.
Grey suited marimba players
at the baggage stand,
OBRAS PUBLlCAS
Bienvenidos a Guatemala!
by Jeff Woodruff, of Austin, February 2002.
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