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Pujals-Esteban_ed_La-Lengua-Radical_Editorial-Gramma_1992

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*<br />

He has given her a new peno The point is fine. It makes a line that gives<br />

her pleasure. It invites her writing, as if in sorne way there were a bird<br />

harness<strong>ed</strong> to it. Taking off. A swan, she thinks. She has harbor<strong>ed</strong> in her<br />

mind a duckling who honks awkwardly and swims in circles, who forgets<br />

the long stretch of the imagin<strong>ed</strong> neck, the rising into air, leaving the<br />

earth's insistence. The pull down pulls. It doesn't want her feathery<br />

ascension.<br />

*<br />

The unwillingness to take one's own most. To work for it. To work is to<br />

push against the mud, to push against inertia. Fear of not staying aloft.<br />

Falling. Falling. Fear of maintaining altitude, of not maintaining altitude.<br />

The will, to go up.<br />

Catching the up-draft-the way gulls do, out at the beach, apure attention<br />

to air currents as they glide by at a tilt.<br />

*<br />

Inertia, ennui, losing momentum, lights dimming, broken generator.<br />

Letting someone erase you. Not wanting you there. Saying the sky is<br />

private property. Ours.<br />

About Plums: Height of Season: July and August. What to look for.<br />

Plump fruit with good color, slightly soft but with smooth, unshrivel<strong>ed</strong><br />

skins-purple, r<strong>ed</strong>, blue, yellow, green- and may be round or oval in<br />

shape. About Persimmons: Availability: October through December.<br />

What to look for. Deep orange or r<strong>ed</strong> color with green cap intact and no<br />

signs of damage.<br />

Saying those sentences aloud gives pleasure. She locates something<br />

found in the world's structure.<br />

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*<br />

Él le ha regalado una pluma nueva. Tiene el punto fino. Traza una línea<br />

que le causa placer. <strong>La</strong> invita a escribir, como si en algún sentido un pájaro<br />

hubiera en la pluma. Despegar. Un cisne, piensa. Ha albergado en su<br />

mente un patito que grazna torpemente y que nada en círculos, que olvida<br />

la longitud del cuello imaginario, el elevarse en el aire apartándose de la<br />

insistencia del suelo. <strong>La</strong>stra el lastre. No quiere su ascensión de plumas.<br />

*<br />

<strong>La</strong> resistencia de una a asumir lo más suyo. A trabajar por ello. Trabajar<br />

es empujar contra el barro, contra la inercia. Mi<strong>ed</strong>o a no mantener el<br />

vuelo. A caer. Caer. Mi<strong>ed</strong>o a mantener la altura, a no mantenerla.<br />

Voluntad de elevarse.<br />

Tomar la corriente ascendente, como las gaviotas en la playa, atención<br />

pura a las corrientes en el planear, inclinadas.<br />

*<br />

Inercia, fastidio, pérdida de impulso, luces que se borran, generador<br />

averiado. Dejar que alguien te borre. Que no quiera que estés. Que el cielo<br />

es propi<strong>ed</strong>ad privada. Nuestra.<br />

Sobre las ciruelas: Sazón: de julio a agosto. Descripción: fruta r<strong>ed</strong>ondeada<br />

de color vistoso, algo blanda pero de piel brillante y lisa -morada,<br />

roja, azul, amarilla o verde- que pu<strong>ed</strong>e tener forma ovalada o r<strong>ed</strong>onda.<br />

Sobre los palosantos: sazón: de octubre a diciembre. Cómo escogerlos:<br />

color anaranjado profundo o rojo, con el p<strong>ed</strong>únculo verde intacto y sin<br />

señales de haber sido golpeados.<br />

Produce placer pronunciar esas frases en voz alta. Ella sitúa algo que ha<br />

encontrado en la esctructura del mundo.<br />

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