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Squares (2) Plaza De Armas, Santiago, Chile By Graham Burchell A melee in the clearing distanced from the toxic roar of yellow buses parkers on benches watch stories unfold from the patriots pickpocket schemers chessmen lovers players and artists adding color to make their numbers it’s a swirl this ballroom of cueca and tango a double clap a turn of the hips adrift in the Plaza de Armas where minds not tethered have nowhere to go and seem stir-fried in a latin wok of eclectic history pasted wedged or overshadowing like the blue gleam of post office glass that dares to hold an old cathedral in its shine and melt its rigid lines Pedro de Valdivia does not seem to care sat astride his iron steed to face those changes he ignores his city and awaits the next quake the great cleanser whilst across the way a stone for Chile’s native past shaped with hang-dog feathers and detached retina notes all through a single penetrating eye |