Magnetic Oaxacan Storm

Miles of protest besieged
as state meteorologist
orders the People defaced.

Squatter photographer,
digging through barbed wire,
shot by swollen police.

Wind pulses in the Zócalo,
that swath of real morning.
Teachers, radio the world.

--Lance Newman

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