About the Poet:
Walter Huracán Gómez, Nicaraguan poet with Afro Central American roots. His poetry seeks to rescue Central American roots—that have been dispersed in exile. He’s lived in San Francisco since 1983.
The memories of civilizations
admire the fine craftsmanship of your posture.
Solid hope of monumental perceptibility:
the strategy of your beauty
the waist of your mystic smile
confronts an enemy of humanity.
Through the gymnastic images
of your liberating torch,
you ascend to the blue of the firmament
to proudly wave your historic figure.
The guardians of savage capitalism appear
with gestures of free exploitation
championing corporate monopoly, but
the strength of your universal symbol
unmasks the merchants of poverty.
A super-bureaucrat with macabre interests
strikes the base of your humanist statue
and between your solid foundations
your internationalist dreams belch forth
to deny the vulgar aggressor.
In the heart of your white structure,
your heartbeats sustain an american mirage.
The beauty of our millenary corn
accompanies the statue of liberty to her new home
on the banks of the Rio Grande
…reaching a hand out to immigrant dreams.
San Francisco, California (2005).
