Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I Am Pregnant And My Poop Is Black

Maria Teresa Andruetto

UKRAINE GIRL

How are things in your land, I ask.
always worse, I respond, it's all a mafia.
My cousin beyond raise your hand down. The girl called
Alexandra and will work to Gerona.
Has your father and mother cleaning Valencia
a hostel in Milan.
His brother,
compliant fourteen, has been in Ukraine
keeping house. I speak three languages, he says,
Ukrainian, Moldovan and Romanian, but that does not work
in Spain. The bus will Gypsies, Latvian and Hungarian
and this girl who has her mother in Milan.
is also a woman who has no Trujillo
papers, told me buying passage. There
a better place and far away.

(In the afternoon I called my daughters. They were not)

I wanted to stay
keeping house, tells me the girl from Ukraine, but
it is best to be my brother. Talking
, I forget I'm still
in Torino, the bus did not start,
my cousin down there up
hand.


Maria Teresa Andruetto (1954). Poet and writer born in Arroyo Cabral, Cordoba, lives in the hills of Cordoba. He studied at the National University letters of his native province. He teaches and coordinates writing workshops. He received several awards as a writer: Luis de Tejeda Municipal Prize, a novel, Fiction Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and International Short Story Award for unknown lands, among others. It is also important and creative work in the field of children's literature. Susana Romano Sued said about the poetry book "Kodak" : " ... is offered as a search of time lost and regained making event in the emergence of instant snapshot; some objects rescued from the trunk of his own life, the lyrical is preparing to put in the poem. "Other books of poetry: " Pavese and Other Poems "," Beatriz "," Words to the embers. "

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