D.I.S.A.
CAMPAIGN
ECUADOR
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Ada Medina
Allyn Caravaglia
Anjana Basu
Annette Marie Hyder
Brian d'Arcy
César M. Morales
Claude Chuzel
Craig MacFarlane
Debjani Chatterjee
Durlabh Singh
Evelyn Cortez-Davis
Gene Keller
Gino D'Artali
Job Degenaar
Liza Di Georgina
Michaela A. Gabriel
Susan V. d'Artali
Tamara Lai
Usha Kishore
Zaida Lysle
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Sisters of the Earth.
© By Zaida Lysle - USA
Picking the
fruit
in
scorching fields
day after
day.
Today it is
peaches,
but after
these green
fields are
picked clean,
we will be
moving on
to the next
patch
of
blistering earth.
We never
seem to get
the dirt
completely out
from under
our fingernails.
We go where
the food is
strange
beds new fields,
make-shift
lives.
My mother
and her mother
are lizard
skinned.
We follow
the crops
in the same
way
the Native
Americans
followed
the Buffalo.
Always a
strange bed,
another
fragrant field.
Peaches
today,
tomorrow
who knows
what those
fruit trees
will give
birth to.
We never
seem to get
the dirt
completely out
from under
our fingernails,
or the dust
from our hair.
These hands
look like
an old
woman’s hands,
I am only
twelve. |
