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con los gatos. La chorrentera 286<br />

interminable les había tapado las<br />

bocas con una mano terca, <strong>de</strong> ruido.<br />

Un remolino, projundo como el umbligo<br />

<strong>de</strong>l Diablo, caminaba por lo largo <strong>de</strong><br />

la poza hasta meterse en las cuevas<br />

<strong>de</strong>l pa<strong>de</strong>rón, para salir otra vez, como<br />

<strong>de</strong>bajo diagua, en el mismo lugar.<br />

Con un bramido <strong>de</strong> perolón, que llevaba<br />

por <strong>de</strong>ntro gritos <strong>de</strong> cipote, risas<br />

<strong>de</strong> vieja, serruchos y martillos, trenes,<br />

lloridos y uyasón <strong>de</strong> chuchos, la chorrera<br />

caiba <strong>de</strong>n<strong>de</strong> bien alto, en gra das <strong>de</strong><br />

vidrio, hasta lo más encuevado <strong>de</strong> la<br />

poza. Llovía eterno, sobre las gran<strong>de</strong>s<br />

hojas <strong>de</strong> los quequeishques y sobre el<br />

talpetatal picado <strong>de</strong> virue la, on<strong>de</strong> cada<br />

juraco era un espejito diacuis287 .<br />

Los raizales formaban tra mazones,<br />

<strong>de</strong>bajo <strong>de</strong> las cuales el agua aletiaba<br />

como murciégalo morigundo.<br />

Saltando <strong>de</strong> piedra en piedra, a guiños<br />

<strong>de</strong> ráiz y trepazón <strong>de</strong> breñales, los<br />

seis soldados llegaron a un <strong>de</strong>svío<br />

cortado a pico, en una escurana jría que<br />

<strong>de</strong>sembocaba en el río. Con una seña,<br />

el sargento los enzanjó289 por aquella<br />

traga<strong>de</strong>ra <strong>de</strong>l infierno.<br />

Caminaban en blando, sobre<br />

arenita fina. Arriba, el cielo<br />

286. Torrentera, cauce <strong>de</strong> un torrente.<br />

287. Cuartillo, moneda <strong>de</strong> 1/4 <strong>de</strong> real (Este último vale 12 1/2 centavos).<br />

288. Spanish “cuis”: coin that was used in Spain in the 18th Century. It was the size of a U.S. nickel or<br />

€0.10.<br />

289. La palabra proviene <strong>de</strong> “zanjar”, excavar.<br />

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ball flexing their biceps. The noise of a<br />

never-ending torrent in effect covered<br />

the soldiers’ mouths like a stubborn<br />

hand. A whirlwind, <strong>de</strong>ep like the <strong>de</strong>vil’s<br />

bellybutton, walked wan<strong>de</strong>ring around<br />

the pond until it found the caves in the<br />

wall. It arose once again in the same<br />

place as if emerging from un<strong>de</strong>r water.<br />

With a roar of a huge saucepan<br />

that contained the cries of children,<br />

laughs of old women, handsaws and<br />

hammers, trains, sobs and the howling<br />

of dogs, the torrent <strong>de</strong>scen<strong>de</strong>d from<br />

up above, on glass stairs, all the way to<br />

the most hid<strong>de</strong>n places of the pond.<br />

The storm poured over the big leaves<br />

of quequeshque trees and over volcanic<br />

tuff that looked like it had measles.<br />

Every hole was a mirror the size of a<br />

nickel. 288<br />

The roots of the mangrove looked like<br />

fallen trees un<strong>de</strong>r which the water<br />

flapped its wings like a dying bat.<br />

Jumping from rock to rock, the six<br />

soldiers used the gaps between the<br />

roots and branches like a lad<strong>de</strong>r. They<br />

arrived at a hand-ma<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>tour in the<br />

midst of a cold darkness that flows into<br />

the river. With a signal, the sergeant sent<br />

them through that hell of an abyss.<br />

They walked over fine soft sand.<br />

Up above, the sky showed its

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