cuentos de barro - DSpace Universidad Don Bosco
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NocHe BueNa<br />
La tar<strong>de</strong> herida cayó <strong>de</strong>trás <strong>de</strong>l cerro,<br />
con lala azul tronchada y el pico dioro<br />
entriabrido. El nido <strong>de</strong> noche quedó<br />
sólito, con piojío <strong>de</strong> estrellas y el huevo<br />
brilloso <strong>de</strong> la luna. Plumas quedaron<br />
angeleando, tristosas.<br />
Los guarumos, altos y chelosos, se<br />
miraban en las escuranas, con aspecto<br />
<strong>de</strong> espíretos <strong>de</strong> palos. La brisa espesa,<br />
tufosita y jelada, hacía nadar las ramas<br />
en los claros morados <strong>de</strong>l cielo. El sereno<br />
mojisco untaba brillos en los bultos <strong>de</strong><br />
las cosas; y toda la tierra se encaramaba<br />
al cielo en olores. Lijaban los grillos,<br />
puliendo el silencio.<br />
Por la puerta <strong>de</strong>l rancho embarrancado,<br />
salió al pedrero una puñalada <strong>de</strong> luz. Las<br />
sombras acamelladas <strong>de</strong> los moradores<br />
reptaron hasta el patio. Un chucho,<br />
interpuesto, se había hecho mesa en el<br />
umbral<br />
Poco a poco, la noche se fue alunando<br />
en clarores hermosos. Des<strong>de</strong> el patio<br />
se columbró el caserío <strong>de</strong>l pueblo. Uno<br />
quiotro candil estrellaba la calle. En el<br />
campanario antiguo, la luna cuajaba,<br />
campaneando alegre; y, <strong>de</strong> cuando<br />
en cuando, los cuetes puyaban la<br />
carpa tilinte <strong>de</strong>l cielo, chiflando todos<br />
luminosos y rebotando con estrépito.<br />
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cHISTMaS eVe<br />
The woun<strong>de</strong>d afternoon fell behind<br />
the hill, with its blue wing broken and<br />
its gol<strong>de</strong>n beak half-open. The nest of<br />
the night was empty except for stars<br />
like lice, and the moon like a big shiny<br />
egg. Feathers left behind flapping, in<br />
sorrow.<br />
The white tall Guarumo trees 136 that<br />
resemble ghosts looked at each other<br />
in the dark. The foul-smelling thick<br />
cold breeze ma<strong>de</strong> the branches of the<br />
trees swim in the sky. The humid night’s<br />
<strong>de</strong>w spread gleams unto the bumps of<br />
things. All the earth reached up to the<br />
sky in smells. Crickets san<strong>de</strong>d down the<br />
night, polishing the silence.<br />
Through the door of the shack mired in a<br />
<strong>de</strong>ep rocky ravine, a sud<strong>de</strong>n stabbing of<br />
light burst out. The camel-like shadows<br />
of the resi<strong>de</strong>nts slithered towards the<br />
backyard. A dog, interposing himself,<br />
had become a table at the threshold.<br />
Little by little, the night was turning into<br />
beautiful gleams. From the backyard,<br />
houses in the town could be seen.<br />
Once in a while a lantern would fill the<br />
road with stars. In the old belltower,<br />
the curdling moon was happily ringing<br />
the bells. From time to time firecrackers<br />
pierced the taut canvas of the sky,<br />
whistling and bouncing off with a<br />
luminous racket.