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pepenar chirolitas de tempisque para el
cinquito47 .
La chucha se puso a ladrar. En el recodo
de la barranca apareció un hombre
montado a caballo. Venía por la luz, al
paso, haciendo chingastes49 el vidrio
del agua.
Cuando la Juana lo conoció, sintió que
el corazón se le había ahorcado. Ya no
tuvo tiempo de escaparse; y sin saber
por qué, lo esperó agarrada de una
hoja.
Él de a caballo, joven y guapo, apuró
y pronto estuvo a su lado, radiante de
oportunidad. No hizo caso del ladrido
y empezó a chuliar52 a la Juana con un
galope incontenible como el viento que
soplaba. Hubo defensa claudicante,
con noes temblones y jaloncitos flacos;
después ayes, y después... El ojo diagua
no parpadeaba. Con un brazo en los
ojos, la Juana se quedó en la sombra.
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commune with her mirror, she got off
the rock and started to collect small
tempisque seeds to play cinquito48 .
Her dog suddenly began to bark. A
man riding a horse50 appeared from the
side of the ravine. He came through the
light, slowly, fragmenting the glassy
water.
When Juana had known51 him, she felt
that her heart had asphyxiated. She
had no time to escape; and, without
knowing why, she waited for him
holding onto a leaf.
The rider, young and handsome, hurried
his step and was soon by her side, radiant
with opportunity and possibility. He
cared nothing for the barking; instead
he began to pay compliments to Juana
with an unstoppable gallop just like
the blowing wind. She surrendered,
with shaky no’s and weak pulls. Cries
of pain followed, and later… the spring
would not blink. With an arm over her
eyes, Juana was left in the dark.
47. Serie de cinco semillas o bolitas para el juego que lleva el mismo nombre.
48. “Jugar al cinquito” is a game where a player throws five seeds into a hole from a starting line. The
winner is the one who gets all five seeds at once in one toss.
49. Hacer añicos.
50. A horse was the symbol of the colonizers, the Spaniards, the powerful class.
51. Or “when he took her” but I decided to keep the biblical ambiguity of the word.
52. Piropear, coquetear.
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