Archivo para octubre 2009
DCDIIL Words – Suddhar
Please note, English is not my mother tongue, so my writing is way worst than in Spanish, but I have to practice, right?
- Have you ever been naked down the stars before? – She asks me while she unzips her skirt.
- No… Not really… – I answer, nervous, shaking and not because I’m cold. It’s never cold in a spring night in Karnataka. I shake out of excitement – Well… Maybe when I was a small kid, a child… Maybe then…
She throws her skirt at my face and interrupts my mumbling.
- That was a rhetorical question, buddhu! – She says with a small giggle -. My dear, Suddhar! You weren’t supposed to answer, but rather to follow me in this…
She starts unbutton her shirt, I shut up and do the same. The night is beautiful, at least I’m quite sure it is. I mean, it would be a beautiful night even if she wasn’t taking off her clothes. The moon is full and shines over her back. When she stands stills I can see the moonlit illuminating her black and silky hair, like a crown or halo.
- You know? When I was a little girl, I was convinced that if my body wasn’t fully covered after the nightfall I was going to die.
She says this turning slowly, looking at the city lights that shine far away from us. She lets her shirt fall back, the dark skin of her shoulders are uncovered and shining with the reflection of moonlight.
- Don’t laugh! It wasn’t that I was specially conservative or something like that – She starts moving slowly, swinging, almost dancing. I couldn’t laugh even if I wanted to -. It was my mother’s fault. Apparently I was once bitten by a mosquito and suffered an almost incredible severe allergic reaction that kept me in the hospital for a couple of days. I still have the mark, you know? – She turns around and touches her left tight with two fingers -. Of course, you cannot see it right know, but it’s here. After I got better, my mother never let me forget how scared she was and that I should be extremely careful about it.
She turns again and starts to loose her bra. I finish taking my Kurta shirt off and start to work my way out of my Jeans. She stands quiet for a while, and I get the sensation that she is looking for someone out in the city.
- What she didn’t told me was that when the mosquito bite me I was but a week old. Talk about forgetting details. – My jeans are off, now the both of us are only in our underwear-. Anyway, when I was 14 I was bitten by a spider. And nothing happened. I started to question my death sentence. I went out the next day to see the sunset in a hill near our house with my a short sleeved salwaar. Nothing happened. I was bitten for several mosquitoes and nothing happened. I felt the itch and found it so refreshing, so liberating – she starts to scratch her body softly with the tip of her fingers -. I realized that I loved to be with my body uncovered, and spent that whole night sleeping naked on the grass.
She takes off her bra and I take off my socks. She turns around, look at me, blow me a kiss and take off her panties. I’m even shaking more than before.
- Are you cold? – She asks.
- No… I’m just…
She throws the panties at my face and interrupts my mumbling.
- I know you’re not… No one is cold in this city a spring night.
I took off my underwear.
- That’s much better – she says and smile-. Can you see me?
- Barely, it’s too dark.
- No it’s not, I can see you… – She laughs again -. It’s because the moon on my back. I can see your whole body, while you only see a shadow of me.
- I see your Bindi… It shines on your forehead.
- Too bad you cannot see my Mehendi. I made it myself, you know? – She stretches her arm to the moon and takes it back down doing some gently mudras -. I carefully designed it for this night… I carefully designed it for you.
She starts to sing a slow paced lullaby and dances to the tune of her own voice. She is getting closer and closer to me. She grabs my hands and invites me to dance with her. We spin around, and with each turn I can see her body better. The perfume of her hair reaches to my face: a mixture of dragonfruit and sandalwood. She starts to go slowly, her hands starts to climb up my arm until they reach my shoulders and we stop spinning.
For a moment nothing happens.
I hug her, she hugs me back and kisses my neck with her tongue. I hug her stronger. She get her mouth closer to my ear and whispers.
- Don’t forget me when you wake up.
- We are awake. – I reply and caress her back.
- When you wake up, there won’t be a “we”. So you have to remember me so we can be dreamed again.
- What do you mean? We can stay like this forever if we want to.
- You’re my best friend, you know? – She kisses my ear and claws her nails on my back. I let a small moan go out. It hurts, but not as much as her kiss -. I cannot really wait until I see you again, so you better hurry and…–
I wake up in my bed, completely dress and sweating cold.
– Have you ever been naked down the stars before? – She asks me while she unzips her skirt.
– No… Not really… – I answer, nervous, shaking not because of the cold. It’s never cold in a spring night in Karnataka. I shake because I’m excited – Well… Maybe when I was a small kid, a child… Maybe then…
She throws her skirt at my face and interrupts my mumbling.
– That was a rhetorical question, buddhu! – She says with a small giggle -. My dear, Suddhar! You weren’t supposed to answer, but rather to follow me in this…
She starts unbutton her shirt, I shut up and do the same. The night is beautiful, at least I’m pretty sure it is. I mean, it would’ve been a beautiful night even if she wasn’t taking off her clothes. The moon is full and shines over her back. When she stands stills I can see the moonlit illuminating her black and silky hair, like a diamond crown.
– You know? When I was a little girl, I was convinced that if my body wasn’t fully covered after the nightfall I was going to die.
She says this turning slowly, looking at the city lights that shine far away from us. She lets her shirt fall back and her dark brown shoulders are uncovered and shine with the reflection of the moonlight.
– Don’t! Laugh! It wasn’t that I was specially conservative or anything like that – She starts moving slowly one way and the other… I couldn’t laugh even if I wanted to -. It was my mother’s fault. Apparently I was once bitten by a mosquito and suffered an almost incredible severe allergic reaction that kept me in the hospital for a couple of days. I still have the mark, you know? – She turns around and touches her left tight with two fingers -. Of course, you cannot see it right know, but it’s here. After I got better, my mother never let me forget how scared she was and that I should be extremely careful about it.
She turns again and starts to loose her bra. I finish taking my Kurta shirt off and start to work my way through the Jeans. She stands quiet for a while, and I get the sensation that she is looking for something out in the city.
– What she didn’t told me was that when the mosquito bite me I was a week old. Talk about forgetting details. – My jeans are off, now the both of us are only in our underwear-. Anyway, when I was 14 I was bitten by a spider. And nothing happened. I started to question my death sentence. I went out the next day to see the sunset in a hill near our house with my a short sleeved salwaar. Nothing happened. I was bitten for several mosquitoes and nothing happened. I felt that itchiness and found it so refreshing, so liberating – she starts to scratch her body softly with the tip of her fingers -. I realized that I loved to be with my body uncovered, and spent that whole night sleeping naked on the grass.
She takes off her bra and I take off my socks. She turns around, look at me, blow me a kiss and take off her panties. I’m shaking more than before.
– Are you cold? – She asks.
– No… I’m just…
She throws the panties at my face and interrupts my mumbling.
– I know you’re not… No one is cold in this city a spring night.
I took off my underwear.
– That’s much better – she says and smile-. Can you see me?
– Barely, it’s too dark.
– No it’s not, I can see you… – She giggles again -. It’s because the moon is on my back. I can see your whole body, while you only see a shadow of me.
– I see your Bindi… It shines on your forehead.
– Too bad you cannot see my Mehendi. I made it myself, you know? – She stretches her arm to the moon and takes it back down doing some gently mudras -. I carefully designed it for this night… I carefully designed it for you.
She starts to sing a slow paced lullaby and dances to the tune of her own voice. She is getting closer and closer to me. She grabs my hands and invites me to dance with her. We spin around, and with each turn I can see her body better. The smell of her hairs reaches to my face: a mixture of dragonfruit and sandalwood. She starts to go slow, her hands starts to climb up my arm until they reach my shoulders and we stop spinning.
For a moment nothing happens.
I hug her, she hugs me back and kisses my neck with her tongue. I hug her stronger. She get her mouth closer to my ear and whispers to me.
– Don’t forget me when you wake up.
– We are awake. – I reply and caress her back.
– When you wake up, there won’t be a “we”. So you have to remember me, in order that we can be dreamed again.
– What do you mean? We can stay like this forever if we want to.
– You’re my best friend, you know? – She kisses my ear and claws her nails on my back. I let a small moan go out -. I cannot really wait until I see you again, so you better hurry and…–
I wake up in my bed, completely dress and sweating cold.
MDII Verbum – María
María sueña que un día él llegaría a buscarla. Abraza su chiquito osito de peluche y mira por la ventana la lluvia caer. Siempre llueve en Vancouver. Le carga. No recuerda mucho de su hogar, pero está segura de que no llovía tanto como en Vancouver. En ningún lugar podía llover tanto como en Vancouver.
María sueña que un día él llegaría a buscarla. Abraza su chiquito osito de peluche y mira por la ventana a las ardillas correr entre los árboles. No importaba el día ni la hora, siempre había ardillas. Eso le gustaba. Pero no le gustaba que su mamá le dijera que no eran nada más que unas lauchas un poco más peludas. María no era tonta, y conocía lo que era una laucha. Las había visto correr debajo de su casa, allá en su hogar, allá lejos, donde no llueve tanto como en Vancouver.
María sueña que un día él llegaría a buscarla y se la llevaría a ella y a su chiquito osito de peluche a una ciudad donde no llueve nunca y hay muchas ardillas, ninguna laucha, y ella estaría contenta. No como acá, que le carga porque llueve todo el día y a su mamá no le gustan las ardillas.
A María no le gusta su mamá, por eso lo espera a él. No sabe cómo es, nunca lo ha visto, pero está segura de que cuando llegue a buscarla lo va a reconocer. ¡Cómo no, si se lo ha imaginado tantas veces! A veces lo imagina como un caballero con bigote, vestido de traje y todo eso. A veces se lo imagina como un vaquero, como el señor Wayne que a su abuelo le gusta tanto. “A mí que se parece a Frank Sinatra, porque mi mami lo escucha”, se dice. Cuando su mami escucha a Sinatra son las únicas veces que María le dice mami. “Me gusta cuando mi mami canta esa canción de volar en la luna, por eso estoy segura de que él se parece a Sinatra… Tal vez cuando él llegue a buscarme va a venir cantando esa canción, y entonces a mi mami le gustarán las ardillas y entonces a mi me gustará siempre ella, y entonces podrá venir conmigo y el osito”, se decía María mientras miraba por la ventana, “Pero si mientras estamos en donde no llueve deja de ser mi mami y se hace mi mamá… ¡Se va, él la echa!”.
María se pregunta por qué su mamá no es su mami siempre… ¿Por qué es esas dos personas? Antes le daba rabia, pero con el paso del tiempo, cuando se dio cuenta que se fueron siempre de su casa y hogar allá lejos, ella se hizo de la idea de que él llegaría a buscarla y se acabaría la lluvia, y se acabaría su mamá y todo eso que ahora le carga y le da rabia.
María está demasiado ocupada soñando y mirando por la ventana como para escuchar el arrastrar de los pies que produce una pequeña anciana al subir por la escalera de la casa en dirección a la pieza de su nietecita.
- María, mi niña, ¿Qué está haciendo?
María da un brinco de susto, y su chiquito peluche sale disparado por la ventana hacia la lluvia de Vancouver, asustando a las ardillas que ahora le lanzan una mirada nerviosa y enojada a María. Pero María no se da cuenta de eso, porque les da la espalda mientras mira a su Mamina, la que se ríe de la sorpresa de su nieta, al tiempo que suelta un “Ohhhh” al ver al peluche salir disparado por la ventana del segundo piso.
- Pero mi niña, eso le pasa por andar paveando. No ve que está lloviendo afuera, Osito Chiquito se va a ensuciar y vamos a tener que lavarlo de nuevo. A tu mamá no le va a gustar nada eso, cabrita…
María le lanza a su Mamina la misma mirada que las ardillas recién le lanzaron a ella. Sabe que su mamá se va a enojar y que la van a retar y que todo es culpa de su Mamina y no de ella, pero claro, ¿Cómo su mamá va retar a su Mamina? Es como si María castigara a su mamá, idea que cuando se la imagina, le hace soltar una risotada.
- Ya, esa cara me gusta más que la primera si me dejas elegir, cabrita. La comida está servida, por si no escuchaste cuando te llamé. ¿Le parece a la princesita si bajamos a comer antes de que se enfríe? Tu abuelo ya está sentado y te está esperando para empezar… Y ponte tus botas de agua, que tienes que ir a buscar a Osito Chiquito antes de que se resfríe.
- Bueno – Es lo único que María dice.
María camina al closet a buscar las botas, y escucha a Mamina bajar por la escalera. Claro, ahora para más remate va a tener que salir a mojarse. ¡Y con lo que le carga la lluvia! Claro, todo por culpa de su Mamina y de su mamá (como no, si estaba pensando en ella cuando la abuela la asustó). Pero todo iba a cambiar cuando él–
Ding Dong…
“¡El timbre!”, grita María excitada, “¡Es él!”, agrega mientras corre con una bota puesta y la otra en la mano. En la carrera María casi bota a su Mamina al abrirse paso por la escalera, saltando escalones y tratando de llegar lo antes posible a la puerta.
Su corazón latía a mil por hora, no podía creer que él se haya demorado tanto en venir, si ella lo esperaba todos los días, y él lo sabía. Ahora podría preguntarle cara a cara qué lo retrasó. Quizás un vaquero, quizás un show en un casino, quizás un viaje misterioso del que sólo podrían conversar una vez que estuvieran allá lejos.
María llega a la puerta, sonriendo muy emocionada. Trata de alcanzar la perilla a saltos, acá en Vancouver siempre llueve y María nunca alcanza las perillas de las puertas. La gente es más alta, dice su Mamina, que lleva más años que nadie en Vancouver. “¡Puchas!” Se dice María mientras salta “¿Siempre tiene que haber algo que moleste, no? Por una vez podría…” Se interrumpe, porque corre la perilla y la puerta se abre.
- Hi Sweety, is your mommy home? - Dicen desde el otro lado de la puerta.
Mn… María nunca pensó que él hablaría inglés. Tal vez este no era más que un impostor. Uno de esos que vienen a hacerse los lindos y luego salir corriendos. María lo mira con atención… “No, no se parece en nada a Sinatra” se dice María: “el pelo es muy corto y rubio, y esa barbita… ¡El jamás la usaría! ¿Y dónde está el terno blanco? Con ese traje azul más parece pintor que cantante…”.
- Hello…? – Pregunta el impostor.
- ¡No hablo inglés! – Grita María enojada.
- ¡María! ¡Esa no es forma de tratar a la gente! – Agrega una voz a espaldas de María, una voz que ella conoce muy bien. Es la voz de su mamá, no la de su mami. – I’m sorry about this… She is just getting adjusted to a new city. How can I help you?
- Oh, don’t worry, it’s OK – Agrega el impostor – She seems like a sweet girl. I’m here to set up your cable connection.
- Great, then you wish to speak with my father, please, come in.
María no puede estar más enojada. Su mamá la tiene sujetada del hombro, así que tampoco puede correr a esconder y nada así. Más encima, no entiende nada de lo que hablan. Siempre pasa cuando llega un extraño, un impostor a la casa. Hablan de cosas que no entiende en un idioma que no entiende. En Vancouver la gente es alta, le cargan las ardillas, llueve todo el día y María no entiende nada. Le carga Vancouver.
- Thanks… Oh, one more thing… - Dice el impostor, mirando a María – On my way here I saw this fly off your window, I imagine is yours… Right?
De su espalda saca al Osito Chiquito, todo mojado pero sano y salvo. Se agacha para entregárselo a María, quien lo recibe, al tiempo que el extraño le guiña un ojo y le dedica una sonrisa. Su mamá le murmura thank you al extraño y lo hace pasar, mientras cierra la puerta.
María abraza a su chiquito osito de peluche, mira por la ventana junto a la puerta cómo las ardillas corren. Se da vuelta y ve a su mamá acompañando al extraño dentro de la casa… La escucha tararear una canción.
Tu, tu, tu… the moon…
- ¡Es él! – Grita María, lanzando por los aires a su Osito.
Lo recoge y va al comedor a donde su abuelo conversa con él y a ella la espera un plato de lentejas.

