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A History of Wickedness/ The Diary of Thomas Garrison, the excavation of El-Zoty, Petén Basin Region, Guatemala (a poem) 

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 Culture
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A History of Wickedness/ The Diary of Thomas Garrison, the excavation of El-Zoty, Petén Basin Region, Guatemala (a poem) 

 

 

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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