The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón

Author:Eliana Hernández-Pachón [Hernández-Pachón, Eliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

The Investigators point out:

The bullet traced a parabolic path that may be described as follows: a line is born from a man’s outstretched hand and forms a curve, rises to its zenith, and then contracts, arcs downward, can be heard among other bullets: tra-ca-ta-ca-TA. The air’s resistance slows its flight. Even so, the bullet entered through the right side.

Witnesses state that women in rocking chairs had complained about the weather, remarking on the stillness of the air.

The Brush says:

Beneath the sun’s great squall,

charred black insects rest,

and children bury ducks so that they’ll sprout and grow:

the leaves are newly dry,

the buds,

their coloring decayed.

It’s common knowledge that if salt should burgeon

from the ground and form

two sandy hollows,

two stones

should mark the way.

But if nobody knows how to contain the salt

or make it bloom again inside the graves,

the facts will crystallize

like an irruption, accidental,

extraordinary,

and not the detonation

of a long-brewed plan.

When the moment came, it felt like a wasp

boring into the spine from within,

then the flash,

then nothing.

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