Curandera/Community Nurse

Para Olga Díaz

She's from a time

when sirens

are not cars.

Su corazón es

una jicama,

no sabe llorar,

es blanco,

denso y duro,

pero las cuerdas

de su canto

tiemblan

con el olor

a hospital.

Her heart

is a healer

by computer,

she spreads

lotion over

your wounds

and heals you,

prints you,

e-mails you,

communiqués

you to the Zapatistas,

pillows her politics,

her motherless pain.

She is a modern woman!