Bilbao–New York–Bilbao by Kirmen Uribe

Author:Kirmen Uribe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Coffee House Press

I’m not capable of keeping a daily diary. I jot things down in notebooks, things that come into my mind, what I’m reading and other kinds of information, errands maybe, or telephone numbers. All of those things are my daily diary.

After living in Bilbao and Gasteiz, I moved back to my hometown in the fall of 2005. From the time I moved out to go to college until then I’d been back only every once in a while.

On July 28, 2005, this is what I wrote in my notebook:

I got to Ondarroa on Sunday. It calms me down to be here. I’ve been wanting to keep on with the novel project but I can’t. In the P.M. when I was messing with a very few lines of it a bird flew into the room. It was so fragile, fluttering around and around smashing into the walls. I opened the window wide and it got itself out. The way it looks to me, I’m just as mixed up as that bird, as disoriented.

Noontime today they told me this one episode. During the Republic there was supposedly a socialist in town called Meabe. The man was a bird fancier, tamed and trained songbirds. He had who knows how many songbirds.

Once, in the war, a bomb destroyed his house and all the birds flew out. By then, Meabe had got away from town. People talked about it like a magical thing, after a severe explosion hundreds of songbirds flying free in the streets. After a brutal event like that, after the fear, after the destruction, for a moment joy had taken over those streets.

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