Another AmericaOtra America by Barbara Kingsolver

Author:Barbara Kingsolver [Kingsolver, Barbara]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2022-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

Nunca lo encontraron. Y

no espero que vuelva,

aquí ya no hay nada para él. Ni plata

bajo la cama,

ni confianza.

Lo guardo en un cajón con llave con mis cuchillos de cocina

y otras cosas mías que han sido usadas contra mí.

TEN FORTY-FOUR

This is all that happened.

In the pollen heat of an August,

one of those days when the sun

fills your skin like a leaf,

I was in my yard,

visiting the trees.

A man in a clean blue shirt

stood waiting, suddenly,

for me to notice,

waiting as if forever.

Polite enough, in trouble,

said his car broke down.

His mouth was a pale cave.

He needed to get in out of the sun.

He asked if he could

ask me for a favor.

In those days it was my habit

to say I would,

even before I asked

what do you want?

He followed me in.

I poured water in a china cup,

china, a wreath of antique roses,

and then he asked

if I would do just one more thing.

I felt, before I saw

the stainless point between my ribs

dead center on the heartbeat,

a treasure in a cage

so easily opened.

Nothing at all to the lock.

I said, “Yes I will.”

I didn’t ask, “What is it

that you want?”

It was the last time.

That knife was mine, I’d used it

on a hundred days to peel

my vegetables, and with that exact

regard for me he used it, peeled off what there was

of faith.

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