DESPOSORIO
Todo significado lo denomino madre con su vestido largo de faya (escotado) ella en el pastizal o en el subsuelo del pastizal (rodeada de plagas) apacible en su silla (olorosa) a jambas de pinos recién talados (yace) en su mano derecha la llave maestra que nos abría de unos a otros la puerta abría las compuertas que nos anegaban: y es una llave de madera (olorosa) sus pechos arrugados (estrías, en la madera): corren las aguas pudren sus carnes bajo la tela de su figura sentada (las telas, se despliegan) (su figura, se reproduce) en los pastizales: ella se denomina significado azul de la flor desleída del lino bajo cuyo brote está la flor de lino en transfiguración de mi madre (otra cosa más, en el pastizal) (otra cosa más, en el subsuelo) desleída. Absorto, soy aquél a quien ella impone ambas manos inclino el testuz piedra volcánica mis pies. Inscrito en el tezontle me puse el traje mensual de la primera infancia para irla a mirar inexacta razón el sonido ahuecado de un pájaro de flautas que la sobrevuela. En sus círculos concéntricos deja caer su flujo viejo su roto mineral de gemas o sus blancas micciones sobre mi madre. Ya se tranquilizó a todo movimiento suyo la silla no crepita bajo sus pies hay nidos alguna convulsión de óvulos espesos en su ropa interior. Me acerco a mirarla más aún inexacta más aún transfigurado su raciocinio. La beso huele a regastados cueros (sus olorosos pies, bálsamo viejo): mi traje lineal se ha aristado estoy de pie la contemplo: un gorrión a sus pies el moho una verde barahúnda: ella (está viva) me frotó las axilas plagadas de golondrinos (un líquido pestilente) una conflagración: a un movimiento suyo me inclino con ambas manos enfundo sus pies en dos borceguíes de madera estampados con rombos. |
BETROTHAL
Everything meaningful I call mother with her long (décolleté) faille dress she in the meadow or in the meadow’s subsoil (surrounded by swarming insects) peaceful in her chair (smelling sweetly) of doorjambs of fresh- cut pine in her right hand (lies) the master key that opened the door for one or the other of us opened the flood gates that drowned us: and it’s a key of (sweet-smelling) wood her wrinkled breasts (stretch marks, on the wood): the waters flow her flesh is rotting under the clothing of her seated body (the fabrics unfold) (her shape, is reproduced) in the meadows: she is called the dissolved linen flower’s meaningful blue under the shoot of which lies the linen flower transfigured as my mother (something more, in the meadow) (something more, in the subsoil) dissolved. Immersed, I am the one she lays both her hands on me I bend the nape of my neck volcanic rock my feet. Inscribed on the volcanic rock I put on the monthly uniform from first grade to go and look at her imprecise reasoning the hollowed-out piping of a songbird that flies over her. As it circles concentrically it drops its old discharge its broken gem- stone ore its white micturation on my mother. Already she has grown calm at each movement she makes the chair doesn’t creak there are nests under her feet some trembling of dense ova in her underwear. I approach to look at her even more imprecise her reasoning even more transfigured. I kiss her she smells of worn-out leather (her sweet-smelling feet, an old balm): my straight-lined suit has become spiky I stand there I contemplate her: a sparrow at her feet the mildew a green uproar: she (is alive) she has rubbed my armpits riddled with tumours (a foul liquid) a conflagration: at a movement of hers I bow with both hands I wrestle her feet into two wooden laced boots decorated with diamond-shaped patterns. |
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