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A History of Wickedness/ The Diary of Thomas Garrison, the excavation of El-Zoty, Petén Basin Region, Guatemala (a poem)
Published Feb 5, 2023
Updated Feb 6, 2023
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A History of Wickedness/ The Diary of Thomas Garrison,
the excavation of El-Zoty, Petén Basin Region, Guatemala
i.
I didn’t want to leave the spaces of childhood,
the airy rooms, the cellar I’d never gone into.
I knew the minute I stepped out the door, time would
petrify to a road between me and who I’d go on to be .
My blood now harped solely on the buried city.
So I knew it wasn’t being drawn, magnet-wise,
to just any ruined temple. But as to which
was attracting it, it didn’t say.
ii.
The jungle could make even a seven-storey Mayan
pyramid vanish; just three metres away from
the fern-covered steps, nothing could be seen
of the lurking leopard as it curled up
like paper set aflame.
We fix the laser onto the plane, and point
the beam at the ground. That
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