After Three Hours of Screening Dirt at Heshotauthla is the name of Ann Walters’ poem, found at the Ballard Street Poetry Journal. It begins:
“From her open palm sweat rises,
and oil, dust, a thousand exhalations
of the nerves…”
Read the rest of this short poem by Walters, a former physical anthropologist and archaeologist, or visit the Ballard Street Poetry Journal homepage.
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