We continue to receive bodies in currents along the shores
of the Rio Paraná some days they are scattered
amongst the reeds today the curate helped identify the bodies found in the currents
but none were of the current Mayor
the old men say the currents have never had a diet
a five-year-old was devoured like a redcurrant
after the same current had bitten his parents
in Corrientes
they picked up all the loose curs & rent has gone up because
of the currency crisis
the Chamamé festival was curtailed by bad currents at the present time
a warning is out
for southern currents after a cavalcade of courier wagons
was lifted
like a bird's cry when we go outside we feel the sky vibrate
with the probability of currents
inside before dark & close your curtains but we still fish & piss
& stand together in currents no street vendors have been arrested
in currents for eleven days now babies are born in currents disappear in currents mothers
read aloud the names of the disappeared
as they march through the Plaza
carrying photos of the missing
& signs written in cursive
pasted to the side of every current when you turn a corner
all you see
are the curved faces & curled lips
of missing currents
current after current all mothers want answers have you seen my current they ask
& down with the currents they curse it’s all politics the old men say
but stay out of the way
of those swift moving currents.