to paint Mácacoel tanka
to paint Mácacoel,
he who is without eyelids,*
I have used
the ink of flowers* that fly
from the hidden scared caves
*Mácacoel,
him who is without eyelids, guards the entrance to sacred caves in Taino
iconography. He was turned into stone
and placed in front of the caves for all eternity.
*Colorful birds thought to be extinct.
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