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Watercolor on paper, laserprint on tissue

14" x 20"

 

The poem was inspired by visiting the memorial in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

The son of a victim paints in his mother's memory. See his work at 

https://www.instagram.com/manuelmassolo/

 

Text:

Against the Wall

               —for the 30,000 Victims of Argentine’s Military Junta

 

The concrete wall points to the river where the disappeared reappeared.

The concrete wall whispers names in the whipping wind...

Albert Luis Calou, age 38

Luis Alberto Camacho, age 24

Carmen Amalia Calvo, age 23

whose friend

Maria Eugenia Sanliorienti, age 23

held her newborn son,

sang lullabies

cradled hope

spoke up

between changing diapers

and wrapping empanadas

before seven bullets stole her voice

left her son a hole as empty

as the junta's gun barrels.

 

The concrete wall is as immortal

as the crimes of the state

that echo on these panels

exposing a regime desperate

to silence 30,000 young dreams and

stain a country with their blood.

 

The concrete wall dares us

to remember the names

Dares us to scream when

Injustice tears dreams

Dares us to stand like a wall

between freedom and forces

that inspire concrete walls.

 

Against the Wall

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