La posesión del Ágata, en inglés...
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The possession of the agate
Here, on this Cape, the sea was invented. The settlers had already arrived—with their cigarettes in their mouths—to bait the seagulls and take flight like a silent airplane.
I saw them rowing across the sea in a paper sailboat. The shapeless berets covering their heads clung austerely to their weathered faces.
And so great was the love for the land bathed in abundance that there was no greater hunger than the pinching of the crop, that, with all the food, sweat and arm wrestling, they smoothed the hours with the air that sculpts the breath into a sigh.
They were learned labors in pursuit of the impossible, often also songs that kneaded the language and work with God as the horizon to atone for blasphemies.
The men panted, chanting curses with the bold humor of poets, sculpting words, not knowing what to say, to speak to them in the face of misery.
Perhaps they never surrendered their embrace or nestled their hair in the balm of kisses the sea promised. The candor was blue, the dreamlike purity relegated to a later, to an I don't know, to a what's next.
For all their indecision, they stubbornly charged forward, floating around the well where the water flowed from the master's hand; a few applauses arose, and some stubborn mouths tilted their lips, spitting onto the ground.
But this is my cradle, it is the house that the moon built by the hands of my grandfather.
There was no poverty or silence, perhaps some trickery, one had to deceive hunger and cold, take stock of poverty and want, navigate the land and wrest mercy from the sea and the sky.
Taking the match from the dawn and my mother's childlike hand, with its sardonic hues sleeping in the shadow of a constellation of cosmos, were, yes, nine sleeping stars awaiting galaxies to come in years.
From dawn to the Angelus, the wind inks the shore and the roads.
My father turned pale with his wounded fish and in his game of checkers he took off his ghosts' shoes.
The sea is a slow turtle that perseveres in you, clinging to your back, and you name yourself atrium, a confirmed promise of exile, and you pretend that the wind is your home and you defile your hands pretending to be a star whose halo does not exist.
I haven't yet spoken of the rainy days, of the blessed light of the downpour, when all the plates tremble with excitement from the heat of the porridge, the crumbs, the tarbinas... these are poems to cure hunger.
Bread croutons and fried almonds, with water or milk, sugar and cinnamon and honey for garnish, and aniseed to curl the sea and verbena.
What silences the night at the hem of her skirt. The mirrors admire the jasmine on her face.
Let him stretch out his suit and let her stick out her tongue in shame, let her suicidal hands shake with care.
Thus the return, the samsara, the possession of the Agate, only ring and light, there the pearl necklace.
I return to paradise with the white hat of not having broken anything.
I love myself like a star searching for its rings; the world hasn't closed. There, everything is memory. A grasp of the sum of times, when I didn't exist, and the world was the cherished map to enter life.
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