{"id":3267,"date":"2019-12-02T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:32:16","slug":"dec-2-brave-women-the-anniversary-of-their-violent-murders-1980-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/12\/02\/dec-2-brave-women-the-anniversary-of-their-violent-murders-1980-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 2 — brave women, the anniversary of their violent murders 1980 El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, December 2, 2019<\/strong>
\n\u201cturned in the air together
\nand landed backwards!
\nthat\u2019s what got me\u00a0\u2014
\nto face into the wind\u2019s teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

On days offering anniversaries of courage and violence, \u00a0 flint-hard poetry can recall bravery to match meanness. \u00a0On this date, December 2, 1980, four American women, Maura Clark and Ita Ford (Maryknoll sisters), Dorothy Kazel (Ursuline sister), and Jean Donovan a single young woman, were raped, murdered, and buried in Salvadoran shallow graves by out-of-uniform Salvadoran soldiers. Their murders evoked a response in the U.S. that galvanized opposition to U.S. funding for the Salvadoran military. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s poet, William Carlos Williams almost certainly never met\u00a0Ita, Maura, Dorothy and Jean, but he would have recognized them. \u00a0His metaphor of two acrobatic starlings, in so short a poem, helps me to breathe, and \u201cface into the wind\u2019s teeth\u201d again now in 2019. \u00a0 \u00a0Perhaps these women, \u00a039 years after they gave up their lives, can dance onto the wires and refresh our imaginations in our hard times.<\/p>\n

Have a blest week . . . and a blest December, home of my favorite season, Advent.<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Manoeuvre<\/strong><\/p>\n

I saw the two starlings
\ncoming in toward the wires
\nBut at the last,
\njust before alighting, they<\/p>\n

turned in the air together
\nand landed backwards!
\nthat\u2019s what got me \u2014
\nto face into the wind\u2019s teeth.<\/p>\n

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William Carlos Williams
\nSeptember 17, 1883 \u2013 March 4, 1963
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Carlos_Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brave women.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1980_murders_of_U.S._missionaries_in_El_Salvador<\/a><\/p>\n

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Monday, December 2, 2019 \u201cturned in the air together and landed backwards! that\u2019s what got me\u00a0\u2014 to face into the wind\u2019s teeth.\u201d On days offering anniversaries of courage and violence, \u00a0 flint-hard poetry can recall bravery to match meanness. \u00a0On … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}