Remembrance Ritual Prayer

Remembrance Ritual Prayer

Elizabeth Velazquez, 2018.

 

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Bodies Ground Land

Land Ground Bodies

 

Bodies above ground

Bodies below ground

 

Ground above bodies

Ground below bodies

 

Land above all bodies

Bodies above all land

 

Land below bodies

Bodies below land

 

Lamenting  bodies above

Lamenting bodies below

 

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Bodies of Lamentation

Lamentation of bodies

 

                                                                                                     injustice, illness, neglect

 

For those who bodies have suffered and continue to suffer the violence of injustice, illness, and neglect-

 

I pray for you

and I pray for a land on which injustice is healed