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39 castigando el santo ramon fernandez i too want to know that woman who ‘sang beyond the genius of the sea’ to see her maiden name her only dress i imagine her as gestures made a lingering smoke ramon ramon this is the woman of whom we dream an echo in the eyes of all the men who mouth her name dolores maria de los canciones they sing her name ‘and of ourselves and of our origins’ we asked for one more song she sang of roads your road ramon a guest who walked alone the earth’s lingering pulse in a town called town my road ramon something fainter still gathering coal for a fire which burns my family name because she sang we began to pray and so slowly 40 turned our saints upside down until the prayer answered the words sung we turned them back to that place from which they came ramon she is those words the written names scrawled upon the trees the earth’s maiden name some boy’s mother who slowly sings him home ...

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