Divided Equally
2015; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 89; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/wlt.2015.0012
ISSN1945-8134
Autores Tópico(s)Cuban History and Society
Resumo38 WLT SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2015 Brief Letter from Oscar Wilde to His Lover by Alfredo Zaldívar for Laura Ruiz Montes My dear little lover: only alone can I write I love you, beneath the silence of silence, in a house surrounded by night, behind walls of fear, their doors and windows condemned. Like a thief, like a pervert, like a contagious patient I flee the world in order to say I love you. I who have loved light shining on light, who follows the calm wake of water on water, transparency of wind on wind, hide from my own shadow. I who have opened my hands with all their landscapes, opened my breast, its surly tattoos, taken my heart into the storm and left it to the moon’s tides, today I write ephemerally what I must seal in memory, because today my hands will rip apart this sheet of paper and every word will burn to ash. Tomorrow it will all be an abyss of words, music in your ears strummed by my voice. My huge little lover, great love made small by fear, small world that doesn’t understand, tiny world where the plain and simple love of the man who loves you does not fit. Reading Prison, 1896 – Matanzas, 1998 Divided Equally by Laura Ruiz Montes Back in that time with the lovely name: Special Period, Maribel, Maritza, Orestes and I shared lunch. Although it was little enough we divided equally the scant rice and meager soup. One luxurious day we combined Christmas, New Year and all the world’s holidays. We boiled an egg and also divided it equally. An old wine bottle with wildflowers and water accompanied those meals. Today Maribel lives in Segovia in a village with the lovely name: Cerezo de arriba, Maritza is in Toronto, Orestes is the pastor at a Baptist church, and I’m here, still lunching in the same place. Although it may not seem so at first glance, we continue to divide the nation in equal portions. Editorial note: For another poem by Ruiz Montes, turn to page 42. special section six cuban poets ...
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