Mario Chard
MACHISMO
Sprache: englisch
Übersetzungen:
deutsch (Machismo)
MACHISMO
Refugio from Mexico is not Mexico,
nor is every man who makes other men small
in the convex mirror of his buckle
Refugio, who turned his daughter gold
in the mirror of his own—the last world unknowable
to Refugio—the night he carried her out of Mexico
before the war to give her Mexico
before the war, before a man named refuge
in his native tongue could be hung from an overpass in the sun
for something smaller than his buckle:
the figures of the men unmade inside it,
the thousands vanished in its glass.