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>> I'll read then one called Requiem,
which I do have in Spanish and English.

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This is part of a book called fables
of -- Fables of the blood heron,

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Fábulas de la garza desangrada,
and I am slowly translating the rest

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of the poems to publish a bilingual edition.

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I hope maybe next year.

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Requiem. Theseus is finally convinced.

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The Minotaur is his destiny.

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He rises and buckles up his shield.

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As he straps on his sandals, the bracelets
of his arms ring out like lightning.

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Legs apart, Cyclopean, he stands over Ariadne
and resolutely fits the dagger to his waist.

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He whispers in her ear one day he'll
return with a rich horn of ivory

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on a damasked cushion from across the sea.

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Theseus embraces her for the last
time and strides off with a swagger,

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lighting up the labyrinth
with the gleam of his sword.

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Ariadne leans against the wall.

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A reed of icy bones has splintered
down the length of her back.

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She sits on the stamped-down
dust of nothingness.

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No bottom there.

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A sudden pain tears at her insides.

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She feels the warm wine as it
runs down between her legs.

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She's begun to abort the Minotaur.

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In Spanish goes like this.

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Requiem. Teseo se ha convencido al fin.

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El minotauro es su destino.

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Se levanta y ciñe al cuerpo el escudo.

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Al calzarse las sandalias, las ajorcas
de sus brazos tañen como relámpagos.

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Perniabierto y ciclópeo se cierne sobre
Ariadne y se ajusta al cinto el puñal,

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le susurra al oído que algún
día habrá de regresar.

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Le ofrecerá entonces una rica cornamenta de
marfil transportada sobre cojines de brocado

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desde el otro lado del mar.

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Teseo la abraza por última vez y se aleja,

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iluminando el Laberinto con
el brillo de su espada.

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Ariadne se apoya contra el muro, escruta
las galerías con el ojo aguzado,

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[inaudible] en la negrura como un cono de luz.

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Una espiga de cartílagos glaciares se
le ha astillado a lo largo de la espalda.

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Se desliza hasta encontrar asiento sobre
el polvo, apisonado de oscuridad sin fondo.

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Un dolor le desgarra súbitamente las entrañas
y siente un vino tibio escurriéndosele por

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la entrepierna.

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Ha empezado a abortar el minotauro.