cuentos de barro - DSpace Universidad Don Bosco
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cuentos de barro - DSpace Universidad Don Bosco
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—Pero hijo, tentá, tentá...<br />
Le hundía los <strong>de</strong>dos huesudos en la piel<br />
suave, que se escurría rugo sa.<br />
—Tres le doy, compa.<br />
—¡Achís!...<br />
A lo lejos se oyó un disparo. Luego otro.<br />
El silencio <strong>de</strong>l mediodía se <strong>de</strong>sgarraba,<br />
como una película <strong>de</strong> coágulo<br />
sobre un estanque; poco a poco las<br />
<strong>de</strong>sgarraduras iban cerrándose, hasta<br />
que la cerrazón <strong>de</strong> calma reco braba su<br />
pesantez.<br />
—Esos han <strong>de</strong> ser Mateyo y Julián.<br />
—O Fila<strong>de</strong>lfo, que agarró dése lado.<br />
—Palomas han <strong>de</strong>star matando, los<br />
babosos.<br />
—No creya, compa: en esa montañita<br />
hay mucho conejo.<br />
Náufrago, en el viento perezón, llegó un<br />
grito.<br />
—¡Aíjaaa!...<br />
Luego palabras, con las letras borradas.<br />
—¿Qué dice, oyó?<br />
—Es Mateyo.<br />
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“But son, touch him, touch him, he’s<br />
worth it...”<br />
He sank his bony fingers in the rabbit’s<br />
soft fur causing the skin to wrinkle.<br />
“I’ll give you three.”<br />
“No way!”<br />
They heard a shot in the distance. Then<br />
another. The silence of the midday,<br />
like a film of coagulated blood over a<br />
pond, was being torn. Little by little<br />
the lacerations healed until the closing<br />
calm recovered its heaviness.<br />
“That must be Mateo and Julian.”<br />
“Or Fila<strong>de</strong>lfo who went that way.”<br />
“They must be hunting doves,<br />
suckers!”<br />
“Maybe not, compadre. There’s lots of<br />
rabbits in them little hill.”<br />
A scream came, lost in the lazy wind.<br />
“Ai-haaa”<br />
Then some words followed with erased<br />
letters.<br />
“What was that?”<br />
“It’s Mateo.”