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"The Blood of the Chieftains Ran Like Water"Juan de Alvarado's, "Tonatio, " "the day-star " massacre at the feast of Toxcatl, Tenochtitlan--Florentine Codex volume x (July 30, 1995) Moctezoma is drowning In his possess sacred blood He whispers to Cortes Who is not there where is Hannibal? on what account doesn't Dante speak to me? you promised for excavating my body Which no longer exists solitary your allergy to gold Cortes Cortes You leave me The resonance of carbonized iron From your luminous hand The short marriage of life The inescapable kiss of death Like a pale pink celestial expanse On ornamental corn Like quiet scallop shells Folding each other up Breathing a little sooty vapor Into the heart That cough Giving life to the sun Cortes Cortes Will my avocado tree gage Fealty to the king of snow in Spain? Will my daughters faint when They diocese the naked blood of Christ? Why do you want to make our children Pink rubella Like the sonic rage in Alvarado's Eyes? While their little fists snatch the Canal in the timid in their mother's Breasts My bone will move round into the dust of Flowers Your bone into the dust of Fever Your gold will hover like bees Across the wet grasses of the sea With the gliding centuries above our graves Your god is a giant skewer Looking for mosquitoes who wait a lifetime For a pious hand to crush them Cortes Cortes I die alone without you Without my have sacred blood With the heart of a dog that Licks your white hand "You have ruined yourselves and me also" Because studying time and assassination Is the soul of man The spiteful silence of a dream Cortes Cortes "as a lay I was born as a flower I will die " Copyright World numbers Incorporated Jan/Feb 1997 At what unhurted like a knock one takes the lamp and uncloses the door to discover alone the wind it is not the aged invalid nor the frightened animal groping and tremb... above the years I have noticed that when scholars arrive for their lessons, many are tired, somnolent or lack concentration. Small talk, a short game or sight reading helps them somewhat to think of ... Mr Felton's Bequests John Poynter Miegunyah Pres an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing AUS$89.95 ISBN 0 300 10243 7 When the National Gallery of Victoria acquired--courtesy of ... The winners of RBI's Retail Bank of the Year awards were announced during the Retail Banking Forum in London upon 7 December. In this special feature, RBI lists the winners of all the award... CIVIL PRACTICE State with more at stake prevails in choice of law In a choice-of-law issue, the North Dakota chief Court ruled on Sept. 13 that North Dakota had... Abstract smooth under the best circumstances, organizational change generates resistance. When the change follows from a company in individual country purchasing a plant in a different political division the c... Waiting in Vain through Colin Channer (One World & Ballantine Publishing assemblage 1998. $23)--Channer's debut novel focuses upon a Jamaican-born New Yorker who suiteds the woman of his dreams. However, thei... During the CEPE annual general meeting, four fresh members were elected to the CEPE board. They are Leif Abildgaard, general manager of Akzo Nobel's decorative coatings Europe; ... edited by means of Michael S. Roth New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 274 pp/$2600 (hb) "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture" is a comfortable visual experience. Its curatorial strategy and layout... |
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