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La Can<strong>de</strong> fue por el canasto. Bajo<br />

el limonero, el suelo doraba. Olía a<br />

mañana. Daba lástima <strong>de</strong>sarreglar<br />

el paisaje enfrutado. <strong>Don</strong> Nayo y la<br />

Can<strong>de</strong> fueron pepenando, uno a uno,<br />

los limones. Más abajo, al haz <strong>de</strong> un<br />

granado, estaba el nance. El suelo<br />

aparecía cundido. La la<strong>de</strong>ra había<br />

llevado rodando los nances hasta bien<br />

lejos. Parecía como si a la planta se le<br />

hubiera roto el hilo <strong>de</strong> un inmenso<br />

collar.<br />

—Tempapádo el monte, tata.<br />

—Cuidá <strong>de</strong> no empuercar el vestido.<br />

—Afíjese<br />

Contagio...<br />

que anoche soñé el<br />

—¿Eh?...<br />

—Era un endizuelo así, sapito, con<br />

buche y con una cosa feya aquí.<br />

—¿On<strong>de</strong>?<br />

—Aquí...<br />

Seguían cayendo limones, que<br />

quedaban medio hundidos en el lodo<br />

negro. A orillas <strong>de</strong> la acequia se oía<br />

una fiesta <strong>de</strong> sanates. Bajo los charrales<br />

empezaron a rascar las gallinas,<br />

haciendo sonar las hojas marchitas. Los<br />

grillos se habían ido consumiendo en el<br />

claror.<br />

84<br />

Can<strong>de</strong> went to fetch the basket. Un<strong>de</strong>r<br />

the tree the ground was gol<strong>de</strong>n yellow<br />

with lemons. It smelled like morning. It<br />

was a shame to have to ruin the fruited<br />

landscape. Señor Nayo and Can<strong>de</strong><br />

picked up the lemons, one by one.<br />

Down further, next to the pomegranate<br />

tree, there was a locust berry tree. The<br />

ground was covered with fruit. The<br />

slope of the land had carried the locust<br />

berries so far away. It seemed as if the<br />

tree had an immense necklace of fruit<br />

and that its thread had been broken.<br />

“The bushes are wet, Pa.”<br />

“See that you don’t soil your dress.”<br />

“So, last night I had a dream about<br />

getting the infection.”<br />

“What?”<br />

“He was one of them Indians, short,<br />

with a big belly, and an ugly thing<br />

down here.”<br />

“Where?”<br />

“Here.”<br />

Lemons kept falling and got half stuck<br />

in the black mud. On the banks of the<br />

canal the Great-tailed Grackle had<br />

their own loud party. Hens began to<br />

scratch un<strong>de</strong>r the scrubbrush, making<br />

a sound in the dry leaves. The crickets<br />

languished in the radiance of the day.

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