Homero Aridjis - Poeta

La Matanza en el Templo Mayor

El capitán buscaba oro en el templo de dios

Soldados ávidos cerraron las salidas

El que tañía el atabal fue decapitado

Y el dios fue despojado de su ropa de papel

Las espadas tumbaron ídolos y derribaron hombres

Los indios para escapar subían por las paredes

o a punto de morir se hacían los muertos

Sombras recién nacidas en el más allá

partieron degollados hacia el Sol

El capitán buscaba oro en el templo de dios

The Slaughter in the Main Temple

The captain sought gold in the temple of god

Greed soldiers sealed the exits

The drummer was decapitated

The god stripped of his paper clothes

Swords tumbled idols   cut down men

The Indians tried to climb the walls

Or at the point of death played dead

Shades newly born in the far land

Setting out    the throats   slit  toward the sun

The captain sought gold in the temple of god

Homero Aridjis – Eyes to See Otherwise – Ojos de Otro Mirar – Selected poems –Translation George Mc Whirter

In December of 2012 I visited Homero Aridjis in Mexico City. I brought along my mother's red shawl. It struck me that after 1975 that red shawl was home for a visit. Aridjis took me to an old house with a long zaguán (entrance) by the zócalo. The house had been one Aridjis had frequented with his father when he was in a boy visiting the city from their hometown in Contepec in the state of Michoacán. The old structure was just a few yards from the modern excavation of the Templo Mayor of which he writes above. The poem was translated by another red shawl subject George McWhirter

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