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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.

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