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Online: The Woman Who Weaves II
Trinity Journal of Literary Translation | 81
Online: The Woman Who Weaves II
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trans. Keith Payne
B Side, hours later you come round again and find her weaving at the closed window the blinds up.
Outside the hide of the landscape is sleek but something is off, something new; sweetness, crystallized candy and the same old libretto for years
a tourist who for a good price returns to the numbered seat, the bus stop and the book cover they’re all overgrown now covered in weeds – Your man at the bar hasn’t a clue he’s too thick but the mirror tells all, that’ll keep you up to score.
Do you know how to read the stones? I’ve kicked them around like tin cans and empty lyrics I walk with my eyes to the ground.
Now and then, a pause
the cigarette that awaits the lips smoking in the ashtray.
82 | Spanish
Online: Tiempo Agregado
Víctor Hugo Díaz
El anciano lee el diario De vez en cuando lleva la cuchara a su boca
La cotona azul desteñida se descosió bajo el brazo (en la misma mesa, frente a él sentada ante el plato humeante, la mujer que de joven – todavía se nota – tenía el mejor cuerpo y el apetito más tímido de la fábrica)
Ahora come de todo se está recuperando lo peor ya pasó.
