Peru, Peru
PERU, PERU
John Hutchinson
December 7, 2007
Last night you came to me,
banging your words upon my bed,
shaking me from the sleep of awake.
Why did you come to me,
give fishes from the cold breath of your sea,
pour your poor upon the hills of hope,
send a shy brown smile from under the lip of her hat,
turn my ears to the Quechua hungering for their tongue to be heard,
lower a stone stairway to the Sun Gate, the dream of a new day,
wave your red flag of chicha to pull the weary from the road?
Why did you
erase your Shining Path, the promise of a promise lost,
cry your glacial tears from snow topped peaks,
lift the weight of your people with a branch of cocoa leaf,
lay your terraced hills dormant in wait for a king,
walk your children miles just to give away their smiles,
raise your Andes to release the heart of your soul?
Peru, Peru,
why did you waken me?
What was it you wanted me to see?
posted by John Hutchinson @ 8:53 AM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Hi John, did you go here? (Found this article on the internet): If you go to Cuzco's best-known chicheria, La Chola on Calle Pumacurco, you will step back four centuries into a courtyard cluttered with laundry, chickens and children. Opposite Spanish arches and sagging balconies, propped by stakes, are the brewing room and the eating room. The brewery is a smoke-filled hole, where a woman, with cheeks as red as the fire she stokes to keep the pots of corn boiling, prepares the next batch of beer.
The eating room, or picanteria, marked by a string of garlic over the door, is open daily between noon and nightfall. While his wife cooks, the patron keeps tabs on the crowded wooden tables and benches set up on a dirt floor. Country people and university students, babes in arms and businessmen in suits - all have come to eat cheap, filling and delicious food, washed down by quart glasses, or caporals, of foaming beer.
Hi John,
Sounds like this is really the type of adventure you enjoy. If you have used up some of your memory cards, you have some serious editing problems before a home show. Assuming you are carrying a laptop ? Get yourself an Alpaca sweater as a trip memory. They are too expensive to buy in the states. Mom is still hanging in there. Take care and enjoy the rest of the trip. Bert helped me to figure out how to post this.
Gary
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