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Pedrón se pegó más al tronco <strong>de</strong>l<br />

amate, con su brazo amplio protegía<br />

al cipote; una que otra gota, llena <strong>de</strong><br />

colores, venía meciéndose <strong>de</strong> hoja<br />

en hoja, hasta caer en el aro viejo <strong>de</strong>l<br />

sombrero. Las ramas, bajeras y anchas,<br />

dibujábanse en seco, sobre el terreno.<br />

Había en aquel refugio una suavidad<br />

hogareña.<br />

—Cuando vos naciste taba lloviendo<br />

tieso...<br />

—¿Eeee?...<br />

—Meramente como hoy... Tu nana tenía<br />

friyo; jue como a las diez <strong>de</strong> la noche.<br />

—¡Pobrecita mi nana!...<br />

—Sí pué, pobrecita...<br />

Había ido <strong>de</strong>cayendo la lluvia; aflojando,<br />

langui<strong>de</strong>ciendo, agonizando. Una brisa<br />

<strong>de</strong> tar<strong>de</strong> dorada sacudía el agua <strong>de</strong> los<br />

matorrales. A lo lejos, los eucaliptos<br />

negros y secos se a<strong>de</strong>ntraban en el<br />

cielo gris, como rayos negativos. Como<br />

espuma lambía la neblina las lomas<br />

olvidadas. Rojos <strong>de</strong> <strong>barro</strong>, iban los<br />

regueritos buscando su salida por los<br />

surcos. Los bueyes, pintados allí por<br />

la frescura, rumiaban recordando... Al<br />

haz <strong>de</strong> la piedra <strong>de</strong> la tormenta, nacía<br />

el crepúsculo, como una florcita. Un<br />

sol mieludo untaba los cerros, que se<br />

agachaban <strong>de</strong>snudos y en grupo.<br />

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Big Pete glued his body to the trunk of<br />

the amate tree; with his ample arm he<br />

protected his son. Every other colorful<br />

drop swung from leaf to leaf until it<br />

reached the old brim of his sombrero.<br />

The branches, low and wi<strong>de</strong>, were<br />

outlined in dry paint over the land. A<br />

homy softness was felt in this refuge.<br />

“When you was born it was rainin’ like<br />

this.”<br />

“What do you mean?”<br />

“Yep, just like today. Your ma was so<br />

cold. It musta been about ten at night.”<br />

“Poor ma!”<br />

“Yeah, poor thing...”<br />

The rain was <strong>de</strong>caying, slackening,<br />

languishing, agonizing. An afternoon<br />

gol<strong>de</strong>n breeze shook the water from<br />

the thickets. Farther away, dark and dry<br />

eucalyptus reached <strong>de</strong>ep into the gray<br />

sky, like negative rays. The foam-like<br />

fog licked the forgotten hills. Looking<br />

for their exit through the furrows little<br />

trickles of water traveled red with clay.<br />

The oxen, as if painted into the fresh<br />

scenery ruminated lost in thought…<br />

Upon the stony face of the storm the<br />

twighlight was born like the blossoming<br />

of a small flower. The sun, like a beehive<br />

dripping with honey, bathed the naked<br />

hills that tried to dodge its light.

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