Let
me tell you the story
That
summer
The
grain lay motionless in the bin
All
the flowers flamed out
They
fell on their stems
They
fell on their faces
The
girl returned to scratch gravel
Where
the midwife buried her placenta
A
cloud swam in a lover’s light
And
knew everything
A
cloud swam in obstinate blueness
Eternally
deceived
Like
a god in the void
This
was when the woods behind the house
Had
not been cut yet
Before
the trailer park sprang up
Like
a field of frozen ferns
I
will tell you how it was
When
she became a holy pilgrim
When
she repented beautiful as a marble saint
She
heard the shouts of wings
Shattering
sunset
The
inexhaustible ceremony of nightfall
The
rain of martyred stars
Divine
dreams parched her skin
The
certainty of roots
Bleeding
where two souls touched
An
immense life-hungry thought
Piercing
a pair of souls
I think her mother said
Bodies
understand each other
But
souls
No
Here’s
the story
As
I know it
When
at the usual hour
She
dreamed a hooded figure
Passing
the clothesline
Where
her mother’s carpet waited to be beaten
Coming
through the barn
Where
her father’s cows bellowed to be milked
She
heard the wind
Speak
brittle leaves
She
heard the wind
Say
extraordinary things
Tangled
in cold shadows
The
tip of a cigarette
Red
as trough water
Bloodied
by a butchered steer
When
a voracious hand
Unbound
her hair
She
had the urge to sing
A
tongue-tied song
She
dreamed an Argentine tango
She
dreamed
She danced into
the thinnest fissures
The
deceptive blue of death
Lived
in her eyes
True
light lived in her eyes
Here’s
what I know
Someone
nearly nearby said
O
daughter of inaudible misfortune
O
daughter of the blind thread-cutter
When
you reach the border
You'll release the word
Trapped
inside your mouth
Untangled
from your tongue
The
word will scorch your father’s fields
The
word will drain his cattle dry
Dropping mid-flight birds at midnight
The
word will wither thickets up in fire
Awaiting
women at the swollen river
Twisting
in their hair until they dance
Argentine
tangos on the barren shore
And
you’ll be there too
A
body dancing a body dancing
A
body dancing on without a soul
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