Will Barber - Jacinta

Flee, Jacinta - to the caldera
To escape the floods -
Fly, fly away.

Miguelito, seek Jacinta
And bring her back
To the white village.

Banners fly beside the road -
Green, red, yellow, blue -
But not for Jacinta.

The mountaintop is grey,
The frogs are silent now.
Who will sing?

Miguelito, have you no words
To woo Jacinta
From her revery?

2007

Will Barber

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