By Bernardo Reyes (9 January. 2011)
News of the rain of blackbirds in Arkansas, this New Year, did not seem so surprising.
I had heard the rain of snakes and fish, although the testimony was given by American poets naturally given to magical realism. Including by the Honduran Roberto Sosa beloved teacher. Just to
in Rosario, Argentina, during a meeting of poets, hear something even more unlikely: the suicide of dogs off a cliff from a height, overlooking the river Paraná. Sometimes it was dogs that zafaban of their masters, to jump the gap even with the leash. But the testimonies we hear with other poets, sometimes it was quiltros the street, perhaps weary of so much misfortune.
From the birthplace of Che Guevara, there are about three blocks from the river, we were walking to the river, trying to find an answer to something that probably is governed by the jurisdiction of the mystery.
"For you I'll cut off his ears should have said Vicente, talking to himself, obsessed, desperate, looking in the mirror, before proceeding to mutilate one of them, and being arrested for not to continue with the right. However, bleeding still, say that amounted to reach the Raquel brothel where she worked to give his ear wrapped in a cloth as a sign of love, anger and especially jealousy. Surely she must care for his friend and colleague Paul Gaughin, as hundreds of guests attending, the matter was that the relationship of artists living in Arles, a village in southern France, that rudely ended December 23, 1888. Vicente
never resigned himself to Raquel not be transformed into fairy and personal muse, and the site of what he considered a betrayal joined a series of symbols that were reflected in his later works. Between
want to look and see a certain distance. But it seems necessary for a margin of doubt understand that dreams do not belong only to the dreamer but also a spirit that is not fully human, a breath of nature, as suggested by Charles Jung.
She must have thought of what substance is made love before anesthetizing your mind and silence the words in his mouth with another glass of alcohol, appalled at the bloody gift. Surely
recalled that distant day, almost lost in the waters of his memory, walking down the aisle of a poor house and his encounter with the fairy.
- was blonde and smiled. His body was light, must have said agitated, but no adults will believe.
A school notebook that should be witnessed image: a young woman, covered in an aura, like the Virgin Mary church in his neighborhood.
Amid the melee, the recriminations that could not make her feel guilty, she lied to Vincent and told him not loved, to escape once and for all of those who wanted to see her as a saint, and because over the years forgot fairies do not lie, and the business of love required to simulate not only the physical layout lewd, but also the exercise of emotional imagery.
is known that "Wheatfield with Crows" was one of six recent works ominous circumstances linked to the imminence of death.
A flock of black birds flying in the twilight toward or fleeing from the observer. Black Birds
surely born of a real situation, but that might be visible through an obsession, only to go crashing into the streets of a town that still was not born in the state of Arkansas, beyond the ocean and dreams.
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