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WHAT THE MOUNTAINS WON’T TELL YOU

The terraced valley returns to nature

After all the wars are concluded

And the tourists have gone home for the evening

 

A quiet wind that swirls around my head

Violently whips up images of a long lost era

That the modern age has yet to embrace.

 

The “cortado”  leaves a nice foam on my lips

As  I settle in to write my poem 

The one I promised to write for two years

 

My first line reads, “Behind the Moorish Walls we kissed”

Whereupon the curtain stirs and the window opens

Calling me towards the Andalusian mountains

 

I press my ear against the wind, not a soul in sight

The high pitch becomes a sonic boom

A cry for help-a critical moment

 

Whether to intervene or return to my poem

How many stories do the mountains hold

For the fallen women of Spain

 

Who sing their songs of lament

Not for Jesus or a son cut down by war

Because they are married to an abusive husband

 

I’ve always wondered if the deep red of the mountains

Was clay or blood from domestic battles of the past

The thinking part is over and the screams vivid as ever

 

But to intervene would involve the police and a statement

The mountains can tell the stories better than I

Besides my poem awaits and the coffee is getting cold

 

William Nunez