Mirage 2016 AZTEC
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Carmen Megeath
It was all there But it was fragile like glass Breaking as you touched it Like light Through the music of armor Like light on the glint of swords And horses Coming on the night wind (Tezcatlipoca’s domain) Treading the trails Toward The most terrifyingly Literally Offered Hearts The blood-matted hair of the high priests Their Blood Magic Adorned in the flayed skins of women To signify their Double Being – While inside the Teocalli Jaguar and Eagle priests Chanted And new heads were arranged Upon the tzompantli . . . O Hernan Cortez first beheld the great city of Tenochtitlan on November 8, 1519 . . .
