Mayday Notes Harvard Divinity Faculty Visiting Professor Refused Visa Comandante Dos Dora María Téllez 22 years old slight and pale in boots, black beret, her Guard’s uniform very baggy.
Behind the railings I watched her talking to the lads.
Beneath the beret her white neck. and new-cut hair. (Before we went out we hugged) Dora María girl and veteran who made the tyrant’s heart tremble with fury.
Poem appears in Poets of the Nicaraguan Revolution (Katabasis 1993), translated by Dinah Livingstone. Before the Assault on the Palace on August 22nd 1978, poet Daisy Zamora hid half the squad in her house in Managua.