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Claudia Bierschenk

Many of these poets have Books. Find them at Amazon Books: Just type in their names.
    Coca

    In San Pedro de Atacama
    an Indio woman sold bracelets
    on the market.

    Her face a ragged landscape.
    She showed me how to eat a Coca leaf:

    "Tomaselo con las dos manos"
    take with both hands,
    carefully hold it with digit and thumb

    look at it
    lift it to the sun
    place it on your tongue
    chew slowly

    wait for the hunger to go.



Claudia Bierschenk