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la BruSquITa<br />

El rancho <strong>de</strong> Polo quedaba allá don<strong>de</strong><br />

empieza a trepar el volcán, al pie <strong>de</strong><br />

unos caragos jloridos, al jaz <strong>de</strong> la vereda<br />

que lleva on<strong>de</strong> Meterio Ramos, cerca<br />

<strong>de</strong>l cantón Guaruma. Entre pedrencos<br />

morados, hecho con paja <strong>de</strong> arroz<br />

y palma, el rancho miraba pa bajo,<br />

pa bajo, por encima <strong>de</strong> los gran<strong>de</strong>s<br />

potreros <strong>de</strong>l Derrumba<strong>de</strong>ro, hasta el río<br />

Guachote quiba haciendo así, así, hasta<br />

per<strong>de</strong>rse en la montaña. Encorralado en<br />

un requiebre, entre cocos y platanares,<br />

estaba el pueblo. Eran todas las casitas<br />

blancas y estaban echadas con los<br />

ojos abiertos. Como ganado arisco<br />

en <strong>de</strong>sparpajo, iban allá los cerros<br />

atrompesándose unos con otros, o<br />

encaramándose al dir <strong>de</strong> brama.<br />

La señá Manuela, la partera, <strong>de</strong>jó el<br />

guacal <strong>de</strong> café en la hornilla apagada,<br />

sobre el polvito azul <strong>de</strong> la ceniza, y con<br />

un palito encendido prendió la cabuya<br />

<strong>de</strong> su cigarro. Con un ojo apagado<br />

por el humo, le dijo a Polo para cerrar<br />

plática:<br />

—Ve vos, yo sé lo que te digo: nuai más<br />

dolor quel <strong>de</strong> parir...<br />

Polo asintió, con sencilla nobleza <strong>de</strong><br />

irnorante. Se <strong>de</strong>spidió la vieja y se fue;<br />

125. Cassia grandis: “stinking toe tree.”<br />

126. Hornilla: a combination of brick oven and grill usually kept insi<strong>de</strong><br />

60<br />

SHe aIN’T No<br />

flooZY<br />

Polo’s shack was located where the<br />

volcano begins to rise, nestled among<br />

flowering carao tree 125 and purple<br />

boul<strong>de</strong>rs. It was right off a path that<br />

takes you to the house of Meterio<br />

Ramos, near the Guaruma hamlet.<br />

The shack, contructed of palm and<br />

rice straw, was looking down, down,<br />

over the Derruba<strong>de</strong>ro pastures, with a<br />

view all the way to the Guachote river<br />

that mean<strong>de</strong>red until it got lost in the<br />

mountains. The town was corraled<br />

within the curve of the river, between<br />

coconut groves and plantain forrests.<br />

All the houses were white, and their<br />

windows looked like eyes wi<strong>de</strong> open.<br />

Like stubborn cattle, the hills were<br />

bumbing against each other as if<br />

humping in heat.<br />

Señora Manuela, the midwife, left the<br />

coffee pot on the hornilla 126 over the<br />

blue ash embers. With a small burning<br />

stick, she lit the butt of her cigarette.<br />

Squinting with one eye, because of the<br />

smoke, and to end her conversation<br />

she told Polo:<br />

“Ah know what ah tell ya, <strong>de</strong>r ain’t no<br />

pain like giving birth.”<br />

Polo nod<strong>de</strong>d, with the simple nobility of<br />

the ignorant. The midwife bid farewell

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