L'aura del Campo

Gifts of the graves [35]

Gifts of the graves

Abandoned by Spaniards greedy for gold,
jade lay among metates
until the land was sold

to a poor farmer who planted white corn
to grind on stone metates
in the cool of the morn

who, before his wife reduced corn to cornmeal
placed a jade charm 'round her neck as she kneeled.

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