John Samuel Tieman: On a Bus in Mexico City

with a profile off an Aztec stelae

on the Reforma bus the young

mother breastfeeds her baby

her modesty barely

served by her shawl

her breast though perfect is not

as striking as her eyes

which are distant and more

focused on – What? – than the child

or even the end of the line

Glorieta De Insurgentes

calls the driver as black strands

of her hair fall into her eyes

and she doesn’t brush them away

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