“Chorrera Woman” by Ulises Estrella Without time for herself dawn and twilight surprise her on the same street corner. watching the plaza with incomprehensible nostalgia she repeats the market’s siren: fresh foam mandarin sock scarf mango charm earring lottery and flower. a vain attempt, money scarce escapes she barely receives it. hunger like always remains, [...]
Archive for February 2009
“Chorrera Woman”; Ulises Estrella translation.
February 27, 2009What happened today; nos robaron.
February 22, 2009I don’t need to worry about scaring my parents with this because they were there too. A line of five people, four men and woman, robbed us. We were on our way to the botanical gardens in the La Carolina. Only five blocks between the park and the hotel. We made a right onto Amazonas [...]
Story published on Boundoff!; Approbation.
February 20, 2009A story of mine gets published once in awhile.
Term limits in Venezuela; Lesson Plan.
February 19, 2009Introduction Knowledge Issue: Venezuela should have term limits for their presidents. Background: On Monday, Venezuela passed a referendum by democratic vote to repeal term limits for their elected officials. This means that a president can run as many times as he or she wants to. This referendum was championed by Hugo Chavez, the internationally famous [...]
“They Call Me Juana, The Liar” ; Ulises Estrella Translation.
February 16, 2009“They Call Me Juana, The Liar” by Ulises Estrella The other day after my daily exercise of drilling through the heavens I swept the floor with a proper face I put a plate on the ground and I ate; I took a jar into the hall and I drank. Like you’d want I left the [...]
Updates; mundane haiku.
February 16, 2009Here are some things I’ve done recently, told in haiku with no other purpose than to inform. TODAY Discussed a theory of clairvoyance and behaviorism. SUNDAY Went climbing on rock even though I’m extremely out of shape. Sun burn. SATURDAY Valentine’s Day at Carolyn’s. I made rhubarb crisp. Everyone laughed. FRIDAY Party near the air- [...]
“Oyacachi”; Ulises Estrella translation.
February 14, 2009“Oyacachi” by Ulises Estrella When the euphoria had just barely set in the damned look of suspicion fell upon us. The bottoms of our boots up on the land we ease on our elbows we lean our faces back; our hoarse heart snores when we have dreams we can’t have, innocents looking to discover mediocre [...]
The shape of hearts; a memory for Valentine’s.
February 13, 2009Students are playing songs in the courtyards on guitars and keyboards. They’re singing in harmonies into microphones. They’re going around to classrooms and giving flowers to each other with lollipops shaped like hearts. Historically, so a theory goes, the shape we use for hearts comes from the shape of a seed of a plant called [...]
Saturday Fragility; a purse with 37 buttons.
February 10, 2009If I expect a disclosure of being, I am prepared at the same time for the eventuality of a disclosure of a non-being…If, for example, we consider destruction…destruction presents the same structure as the question. In a sense, certainly, man is the only being by whom a destruction can be accomplished…The gunner who has been [...]
“The Giant”; Ulises Estrella translation.
February 9, 2009“The Giant” By Ulises Estrella She thinks she’s a Grown-up clear of the clouds breathed of the blue leaving behind the ice and the vertigo the mud and the abyss. She comes down from the hill cradling, beneath her invisible blanket, a green energy from the bleak lands of the above that falls with her [...]
