SERRA PELADA GOLD MINE, STATE OF PARÁ, BRAZIL, 1986*
By: Lydia Ozer
Lydia Ozer is a student at NMSU, majoring in Individualized Studies with a minor in Creative Writing. She has previously been featured in DiN Magazine's 2022 Issue. She writes poems and short stories that explore humanity, mental illness, and the transgender experience.
I bore through Her skull
trepanning for what I deserve
those golden thoughts
Her neurons little specks
this wound is my fortune
ants march around me stinging
bites for my mana
skin under these nails
just you wait
bathed in Her flesh I am
slipping, no foothold
I leap from the highway bridge
into the Toncantins
drowning in Her brown blood
She breathes me in
and wriggles through my insides
consuming me like I did Her
She lays Her eggs in my ear
rumors of glistening cities
I give in
now, I am a wealthy man
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*after the photograph by Sebastião Salgado
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