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Portrait of My Mother as Xipe Totec.(Poem)
PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER AS XIPE TOTEC When she said she was Xipe Totec Aztec god of springtime, I believed her. Sitting me down opposite her rocking-chair she explained what that meant: she needed to flay my skin and dance in it in the sunshine. We had no net curtains then, the neighbours always looked in when she turned on the lights. There was no TV, just her face which shone like a screen I couldn't help watching but wished ...
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