Oscar D. Sarmiento

 



In My First
Visit to the Mohawk Reservation
(Letter to Ernesto Cardenal)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the Mohawk life circle surrounds the Catholic cross
          in the Jesuit church: one
          cyclic writing of life one Jesus
             translated into Mohawk
And the polluted waters of the St. Lawrence river
      coming out of the Jesuit Church
      I see the sad waters
      the smoke from the chimneys
      the factories from Canada and USA
             like a river of pests
over the endless waters of the St. Lawrence river


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