In the doorway of Miguel Hidalgo’s church
An Indio woman
-ancient, brown, and raisin-wrinkled-
Crouches like a beaten dog and begs
Senor por amor de la Virgen
She strains a cramped palm to you,
Her body drenched in a blood shawl
Beneath the graven feet of
White, Spanish saviours
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