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HaSTa el cacHo<br />

Los nu<strong>barro</strong>nes ensuciaban las tres <strong>de</strong><br />

la tar<strong>de</strong>, como <strong>de</strong>dazos <strong>de</strong> lápiz. A lo<br />

lejos, en las aradas que iban bajando<br />

<strong>de</strong> los cerros pelones, se miraban las<br />

tierras como pintadas con yeso. En<br />

aquel paisaje, dibujado sobre pizarra<br />

<strong>de</strong> escuela, la montaña era como una<br />

resquebradura. Venía lloviendo por<br />

todos lados. El viento balanceaba<br />

su rega<strong>de</strong>ra sobre aquellos plantíos<br />

<strong>de</strong> tristeza. El polvo, <strong>de</strong>spertado<br />

bruscamente, se <strong>de</strong>sperezaba y se<br />

echaba a volar, como un fantasma. En la<br />

lejana azulidad <strong>de</strong> la costa, la tormenta<br />

iba empujando sus cortinas.<br />

Pedrón y su hijo, <strong>de</strong>jando el arado y la<br />

yunta a merced <strong>de</strong> la lluvia, alcanzaron a<br />

llegar bajo un amate. Las primeras gotas<br />

palmeaban la tierra, precipitadamente<br />

y a tientas, como un ciego que ha<br />

perdido algo en el suelo. El terrón<br />

<strong>de</strong>sflorado sonaba como un cuero,<br />

y olía como flor <strong>de</strong> tierra. Las hojas<br />

se enmantecaron <strong>de</strong> yá, agobiadas<br />

con el raudal cristalino. Los truenos<br />

pasaban, rodando como piedrencas en<br />

la barranca <strong>de</strong> la quebrada. De cuando<br />

en cuando el rayo encendía, <strong>de</strong> un<br />

fosforazo, su puro escandaloso.<br />

—¡Qué aguacero, hijó!...<br />

—¡Mire... tata, cómo sihacen los cocos...<br />

allá!...<br />

180. Fig tree.<br />

94<br />

all THe WaY<br />

The storm clouds stained the early<br />

afternoon sky like finger smudges of<br />

lead from a pencil. In the distance, the<br />

plowed fields came down from the bald<br />

hills and looked like colored with chalk.<br />

The mountain in that landscape was like<br />

a line drawn on a school chalkboard.<br />

It had been raining everywhere. The<br />

wind balanced its watering can over<br />

those plantations of sadness. The dust,<br />

abruptly awakened, was stretching and<br />

getting ready to flutter like a ghost. In<br />

the far away blue of the coast the storm<br />

was billowing its curtains.<br />

Abandoning the plow and the yoke<br />

to the mercy of the rain, Big Pete and<br />

his son were able to reach an amate 180<br />

tree. The first drops slapped the<br />

ground, hurriedly, like a blind man that<br />

has lost something and reaches down<br />

to retrieve it. Pummeled by the rain, a<br />

mound of soil soun<strong>de</strong>d like the swat on<br />

a cow’s hi<strong>de</strong>, and smelled like an earthy<br />

flower. The leaves got soaked quickly,<br />

overwhelmed by the crystal-like<br />

torrent. The thun<strong>de</strong>r passed overhead<br />

rolling like big rocks down the ravine<br />

to the stream. Burst of lightning lit up<br />

its scandalous cigar like the flame of a<br />

match.<br />

“What a downpour, my son!”<br />

“Look at the coconut trees over there!”

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