Hating the World Today

I have been working on a project for weeks on a study and possible recovery of Ancient Mayan spirituality as a response to global/environmental crisis in South/Southeast Mexico and Guatemala. In the midst of finding these amazing accounts of how the Modern Maya understand humans, nature, and animals in relationship to consciousness and time, I was sent an article, which saddened me to my core.

Last spring, I had also spent a great deal of time working on a project concerning the femicides in Juarez. Apparently, there is a new wave of "disappearances" of women along the Mexico/Guatemala border. Women coming from Central and South America to the United States in hope of a better life are kidnapped along the way. Unlike Juarez, the women are still missing, and it is unclear as to whether they have been murdered. How sad that we live in a world where certain bodies are deemed "disposable." See a link to the article below.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44706

Silence

if you will not let us speak

our bodies will cry out in protest

our blood will write our stories

our bones will rattle with fury

eac

New Poem

fall fresh sun beams

on ceramic features

of carved irony

warm the deadened

impulse to breathe

green grass grows

on the other side

of the world

we desensitize the cells

until growth is abstract

feeling obsolete

we steal false smiles

and so standing

in the mire

of dirt and secrecy

shame skirts the issue

of my two feet

beautiful woman

they say

look at you...

--EAC ('04)

**This is a short composite of words I found in a journal from a few years back. It's not bad, but it's not my favorite.