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En aquel tuco <strong>de</strong> cielo el sol metía<br />

un hombro. El platanar se apoyaba<br />

<strong>de</strong>snudo al haz <strong>de</strong>l tejado; sus<br />

carnes eran carnes tiernas <strong>de</strong> niño,<br />

comparadas con las roñosas y aceradas<br />

musculaturas <strong>de</strong> los voladores, los<br />

cedros, los conacastes y los zorras que<br />

lo ro<strong>de</strong>aban.<br />

Detrás <strong>de</strong> la casa <strong>de</strong> Macario estaba el<br />

foso <strong>de</strong>l aserra<strong>de</strong>ro, colorado <strong>de</strong> serrín<br />

seco y oloroso. Sobre dos gruesas<br />

vigas colocaban las trozas dijuntas<br />

para tabliarlas con la sierra roncadora:<br />

“¡Jrum... Jrum... Jrum...!”. En cada aliento<br />

se llevaba una cuarta. Como polvo <strong>de</strong><br />

ladrillo el serrín volaba, manchando<br />

<strong>de</strong> rojo la tierra oscura. Macario y el<br />

compa Cirilo sudaban tieso. Desnudos<br />

hasta el umbligo, se abrían y se<br />

cerraban, bregando por rajar <strong>de</strong> largo<br />

los enormes troncos. Macario, que<br />

estaba en el hoyo siempre, por más<br />

joven y más fuerte, aguantaba la calor<br />

<strong>de</strong>l juraco y la polvazón <strong>de</strong> la ma<strong>de</strong>ra.<br />

Con carreta llevaban a Lempa la tabla<br />

en verano, cuando el fangal mermaba<br />

tantito; y todo el ivierno lo pasaban<br />

encerrados en la montaña, cortando a<br />

ronquidos la troza enorme <strong>de</strong>l silencio.<br />

* * *<br />

200. Without any fruit.<br />

201. In Spanish: the length of a hand.<br />

202. Using an ax.<br />

115<br />

In that piece of heaven, the sun was<br />

nudging a shoul<strong>de</strong>r in. A clump of<br />

plantain trees stood naked200 near the<br />

roof. Its flesh was the young flesh of a<br />

child, compared to the dirty and waxy<br />

muscles of the flying trees, the cedars,<br />

the elephant ear trees and the foxtail<br />

palms that surroun<strong>de</strong>d it<br />

Reddish with dry and aromatic<br />

sawdust, the sawmill’s ditch was behind<br />

Macario’s house. They placed uneven<br />

pieces of wood over two thick beams to<br />

cut them with the chainsaw… vroom,<br />

vroom, vroom! With every breath it cut<br />

about seven inches. 201 Like brick dust<br />

the sawdust flew staining the dark soil<br />

red. Macario and his compadre Cirilo<br />

were sweating a lot. Shirtless, they<br />

opened and closed202 fighting to crack<br />

the enormous trunks. Macario, who<br />

was always in the ditch, because he<br />

was younger and stronger, bore the<br />

brunt of the heat of the hole and the<br />

dust of the wood. In the summer when<br />

the slough of the river was small, they<br />

transported the wood to the Lempa<br />

river by ox cart. They spent the whole<br />

rainy season in the mountain, cutting<br />

with heavy snores the enormous chunk<br />

of silence.<br />

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