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Al pie del palón quemado, que era
como una astilla de noche en medio
del llano pelón donde la rastrojera tenía
un dorar de kakevaca, los dos tiradores
se acurrucaron, agarrados a las
escopetas; y allí, sumergidos en el agua
grata de aquella sombra de esqueleto,
descansaron de matar.
El mediodía caiba de lado, por ser
verano. Del cielo blanco bajaba,
ondeante, una atarraya de plata
caliente. Las montañas, a lo lejos,
sedea ban 307 azul-violeta. Sobre el llano,
en el aire, y en sombra sobre el suelo,
la zopilotada volteaba: mariposones
negros, quemándose la vida en la llama
del sol.
El viejo Calistro se entretenía en puyar
con un palito la pechuga gris del conejo
muerto. El chele Damacio jumaba
lentamente el descanso.
—Tá gordo este baboso. Y se riye, el
hijuepuerca.
—¡Ajú!... de satisfecho...
—Te lo cambeyo por las cinco
palomas.
—¡No joda, compadre!, ¿cinco
cartuchos por uno, no?
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GoNe HuNTING
Two hunters grabbed their rifles and
ducked down at the base of the big
burnt 308 tree which was like a splinter of
night in the middle of the naked plain.
The stubble in the field was golden like
cow’s dung. The hunters, submerged
in the cool water of the skeletal shade,
took a rest from killing.
Because it was summer, noon was
falling sideways. A fishnet of molten
silver was falling down from the white
sky, undulating. In the distance the
mountains were polished like violetblue
jewels. Vultures like big black
butterflies soared over the flats and
over the shaded ground. They were
burning their lives under the flame of
the sun.
Old Calistro killed time by poking the
gray chest of a dead rabbit with a stick.
Damacio, the white guy, slowly smoked
his way through the break.
“This motherfucker is fat. And still
laughs this son of a bitch.”
“Yep. He’s satisfied.”
“Give me the five pigeons and he’s all
yours.”
“Fuck, compadre! I used five bullets,
you just used one? Fuck, no!”
307. RAE: sedear. (De seda, cerda). 1. tr. Limpiar alhajas con la sedera.
308. My mother recalls that hunters burned off the whole hill at night so that the deer had no place to
hide.