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Chinchorro

Jon Mathewson

The parents peeled back the skin and flesh
of their dead child, then tied together
the tiny bones, placed clay masks over
the body and laid the corpse in the
back with generations of cousins
dried under the desert sun like fish
caught in the gorges and out at sea,
a still school needing a larger boat.
They rolled back the flesh from their sorrow
tied it together to save their loss,
creating art, that is how they lived
before they became the new supply.
Sorrow has already filled my dunes,
The ocean beckons, beckons, beckons.



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