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Atrás jue quedando el grito herido <strong>de</strong> la<br />

Tana; la casa chele <strong>de</strong> Juan Barona; los<br />

tapiales <strong>de</strong> adobe, cundidos <strong>de</strong> reseda;<br />

la pilita seca; la caseta <strong>de</strong> la ronda, con<br />

su cruz ver<strong>de</strong> pegoteada <strong>de</strong> papeles <strong>de</strong><br />

color. El camino empezaba a bajar por<br />

el barrial. Al fondo atravesaba, sobando<br />

los talpetates173 , el riíto <strong>de</strong> Mia<strong>de</strong>güey.<br />

A los lados, en el explayado <strong>de</strong> arena,<br />

crecían berros. Pasó el amatón <strong>de</strong> la<br />

Fermina; el rancho <strong>de</strong> Lolo; subieron<br />

la cuesta <strong>de</strong>l Chichicastal, y entraron<br />

<strong>de</strong> nuevo en tierra llana. A lo lejos,<br />

cabezonas, se miraban las ceibas <strong>de</strong>l<br />

pantión174 , ya borrosas en el callar.<br />

Felipe aventuró:<br />

—¿Juiste anoche al velorio, oyó?...<br />

—Sí jui...<br />

—Yo no jui, pero vengo al entierro <strong>de</strong>l<br />

juneral.<br />

Caminaban cada vez más a prisa, por<br />

la noche que se <strong>de</strong>smoronaba poco<br />

a poco sobre el campo. Pararon para<br />

cambiar los cargantes, porque ya<br />

pujaban mucho. Los dos alambres <strong>de</strong>l<br />

telégrafo iban siguiéndolos <strong>de</strong> poste<br />

en poste; se <strong>de</strong>tenían, curiosos, en los<br />

aisladores, mirándoles con los ojos<br />

ver<strong>de</strong>s; a veces, se enmontaban por las<br />

90<br />

Tana’s woun<strong>de</strong>d house was left behind,<br />

and so was Juan Barona’s white house,<br />

the adobe walls rife with mignonette,<br />

the empty cattle trough, and the<br />

guard’s hut with its green cross adorned<br />

with color papers glued on it. The road<br />

as it dipped down became muddy. The<br />

small Pee-of-an-Ox river crossed the<br />

back of the property from si<strong>de</strong> to si<strong>de</strong><br />

barely touching the volcanic tuff. 175<br />

Watercress grew on the si<strong>de</strong>s on the<br />

sandy riverbed. The road continued<br />

by Fermina’s big fig-tree, Lolo’s shack,<br />

the Chichicastal 176 hill and came back<br />

to level ground. In the distance the<br />

cemetery’s large-hea<strong>de</strong>d ceiba trees<br />

could be seen, almost fuzzy in the<br />

silence.<br />

Felipe spoke:<br />

“Did you go to the wake last night?”<br />

“I did…”<br />

“I ain’t go, but I’m here now for the<br />

burial of the funeral.”<br />

They walked faster and faster through<br />

the middle of the night that was<br />

falling over the field little by little.<br />

They stopped to change pallbearers<br />

because they were struggling. The<br />

two telegraph lines were following<br />

them from post to post. They stopped,<br />

curious, looking at the insulators that<br />

173. RAE: talpetate. (Del nahua tlalli, tierra, y petlatl, estera). 1. m. El Salv. y Hond. Tierra caliza y arenosa<br />

que se emplea para pavimentos <strong>de</strong> carreteras.<br />

174. Igual que cementerio.<br />

175. Spanish “talpetate” volcanic soil used to compacting roads; not suitable for agriculture.<br />

176. Flowering plant acting like poison ivy.

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