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So I'll shift now and
tell you that "Debe Ser Un

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Malentendido," "It Must
Be a Misunderstanding,"

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is the title of the most recent
book by Coral Bracho, one

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of Mexico's most signal
and influential poets.

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She writes in this book with
non-judgemental affection

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and compassionate watchfulness
of her mother's last years with

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Alzheimer's.

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Her book is never
mournful or morbid,

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but filled with an
uncommon tenderness

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and, sometimes,
it's quite funny.

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I'll read just
three poems of hers.

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They're small.

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"Observaciones".

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Las piezas del
rompecabezas se pierden.

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Pero no la mirada
que los sabe suyo.

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Las formas, los objetos,
se funden, se desmoronan.

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Pero el sentido del conjunto
persiste entre momentos,

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entre ficciones, bajo fracturas
incesantes como un umbral, un

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acedero.