I. La Moneda
Silent
The balcony door ajar
One main gate open
_____soldier in the shadows
The sand-grey walls
Bleeding patches betraying
_____those spring-day deeds
__________25 years past
Carabineros stroll in this
_____bright summer sun
__________& leaf mosaic
Their barricades lay
_____in neat stacks
A semi-circle of a dozen flags
_____lazily sway__& billow
__________on a wind that
_______________seems to whisper
____________________from that door
Perhaps if I listen
_____perhaps if we...
Perhaps we could hear....
_____
II. Paseo Ahumado
A small group
_____behind a banner
ANOTHER CHRISTMAS
WITHOUT THE TRUTH
MAY THEY TELL US
WHERE THEY ARE
Youth__& a few grey heads
_____children__& many women
One man carries a guitar case
Placards aloft
_____photocopied faces
__________of the desaparecidos
żDOŽNDE ESTAŽN?
_____
A middle-aged gent applauds
_____their passage
Mouth cupped, he yells
Yes, thanks
The disapproving looks of others
The hastily dug-out
_____& lit cigarettes
A woman_black-bagged purchases
_____dangling from a wrist
She holds her son's fist
_____rushing to join those ranks
PINOCHET IS TO BLAME
WHERE ARE THEY?
Two elderly ladies walk
_____the opposite way
One nears, clapping her support
Her friend raises her eyebrows
A couple unites with the growing mass
Their boy straddles the shoulders
_____of his balding father
As they all cross the street
_____someone swerves his car
__________towards a participant
Communists
Should be disappeared, too
A grandmother grasps a girl's hand
_____in the thin shade
__________of a lamppost
Her lips silently form their chant
NO IMPUNITY
BRING PINOCHET TO JUSTICE
Joining more & more on the sidelines
_____a young chap firmly beats
_____the rhythm of this band
OTRO NAVIDAD
SIN LA VERDAD
QUEŽ NOS DIGAN
DOŽNDE ESTAŽN
An old man hobbles
_____next to me
Where are they?
In the bellies of fishes
He mumbles_over & again
_____in the rhythm
__________of our steps
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