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Luna Miguel

MALA SANGRE (V)

  • 1 Definición del vientre | Translations: de
  • 2 Cerdo | Translations: de
  • 3 Azor común | Translations: de
  • 4 Una semana de vida | Translations: de
  • 5 MALA SANGRE (I) | Translations: deen
  • 6 MALA SANGRE (II) | Translations: deen
  • 7 MALA SANGRE (III) | Translations: en
  • 8 MALA SANGRE (IV) | Translations: en
  • 9 MALA SANGRE (V) | Translations: en
  • 10 MALA SANGRE (VI) | Translations: en
  • 11 MALA SANGRE (VII) | Translations: en
  • 12 MALA SANGRE (VIII) | Translations: en
Language: spanish
Translations: english (BAD BLOOD (V))
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MALA SANGRE (V)

El útero de mi tía tiene forma de soga. Las sogas, como las pulseras plásticas de las niñas que venden en los chinos, tienen formas de animales perfectos. El útero de mi tía Lourdes es un animal perfecto: huele a estiércol y a hierba mojada y a veces se lo comen las moscas. A mi tía le han quitado un trozo de útero y no se va a morir pero le duele. No se va a morir pero le asusta. A mi tía le han quitado el útero y yo, que soy una mala sobrina, no he ido a visitarla. Los hospitales me dan miedo. Tanto que a veces prefiero no ir a ver a mis seres queridos, opto por decir hola, tía, estoy ocupada, opto por mentir, hola, tía, estoy ausente. La primera vez que me quedé a dormir en un hospital, fue para cuidar a mi abuela después de su duodécima operación. La primera vez que me quedé a dormir en un hospital mi abuela se cagó encima. La habitación comenzó a apestar. Llamé a las enfermeras para que limpiaran pero no venía nadie. Abracé a mi abuela, que lloraba de vergüenza. Pero su peste solo me provocó amor. Su mierda era mi amor por ella. Mi cara relajada, mi ceño sin fruncir, era su amor por mí. El fin del mundo tiene que ser algo parecido a esto, pensé: estar al lado de alguien a quien amas cuando todo lo que te rodea apesta a final infeliz.
El fin del mundo debería ser así.
Dos personas abrazadas en mitad del desconcierto.
Tranquilas pero tristes.
Con lágrimas pero soportando.

© Luna Miguel
From: La tumba del marinero
Madrid: La Bella Varsovia, 2013
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2019

Translations:

Language: english

BAD BLOOD (V)

My aunt’s uterus is shaped like a rope.  Ropes, like the plastic bracelets for girls they sell in Chinese shops, are shaped like perfect animals.  My aunt Lourdes’ uterus is a perfect animal: it smells like manure and wet grass and sometimes flies devour it.  They took a chunk of uterus out of my aunt and she won’t die, but it hurts her.  She won’t die, but it scares her.  They’ve taken out my aunt’s uterus and me, I’m a bad niece, I haven’t gone to visit her.  Hospitals scare me.  So much that sometimes I’d rather not go see my loved ones, I choose to say hello, Aunt, I’m busy, I choose to lie, hello, Aunt, I’m absent.  The first time I slept the night at a hospital my grandmother shit herself.  The room started to reek.  I called the nurses so they would clean it up but nobody came.  I hugged my grandmother, who was crying from shame.  But her stench only stirred up love in me.  Her shit was my love for her.  My face relaxed, my forehead unfurrowed, was her love for me.  The end of the world has to be something like this, I thought: being next to someone you love when everything around you reeks of unhappy endings.
The end of the world should be like this.
Two people embracing in the middle of bewilderment.
Serene but sad.
Weeping, but bearing it.

Translated by Kimi Traube
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Luna Miguel

photo © La Lovenenoso
* 06.11.1990, Madrid, Spain
lives in: Barcelona, Spain

Luna Miguel lives in Barcelona, where she works as a journalist, literary scout and editor. She is a columnist in Eldiario.es, although some of her articles have also appeared in Público, El País, S Moda or El Cultural. Between 2014 and 2018 she was editor and publisher of PlayGround Books, where she began to analyze, make visible and pay tribute to writers forgotten and silenced by the canon.
As a writer she has published the poetry books Estar enfermo (2010), Poetry is not dead (2010), La tumba del marinero (2013), Los estómagos (2015) and El recife de las sirenas (2017). Selections of these works have been translated and published in more than a dozen languages.

 photo © La Lovenenoso
She is also the author of the short story Exhumation (2010) as well as of the essays The Finger. Short notes on female masturbation (2016) and El coloquio de las perras (2019), the children's book Hazme volar (2019), and the novel El funeral de Lolita (2018). Miguel has also coordinated some anthologies of young poetry such as Tenían veinte años y estaban locos (2011), Sangrantes (2012) and Vomit (2013).

Publications
  • Estar enfermo

    Poesía

    Córdoba: La Bella Varsovia, 2010

  • Exhumación

    junto con Antonio J. Rodríguez

    Madrid: Alpha Decay, 2010

  • Poetry is not dead

    Poesía

    [edición corregida en La Bella Varsovia, 2013]

    Madrid: DVD, 2010

  • Tenían veinte años y estaban locos

    Antología de poesía

    edición y prólogo de Luna Miguel

    La Bella Varsovia, 2011

  • Pensamientos estériles

    Poesía

    Madrid: Cangrejo Pistolero, 2011

  • Bluebird and other tattoos

    selected poems, bilingual edition

    Sacramento, CA: Scrambler Books, 2012

  • Musa enferma - Musa ammalata

    (italian)

    Traduttore: Faggio Sunshine

    Damocle, 2012

  • La tumba del marinero

    Poesía

    Córdoba: La Bella Varsovia, 2013

  • Sangrantes

    Antología

    edición de Luna Miguel

    Madrid: Editorial Origami, 2013

  • Vomit

    Antología

    edición de Luna Miguel

    Córdoba: La Bella Varsovia, 2013

  • Más allá de la quietud

    Argentina: Melón Editora, 2013

  • Museo Anatómico

    [Poesía selección 2006 - 2014]

    [edition: 1000 Books by 1000 Poets, Luna Miguel 70/1000]

    Zurich: Poetry Will Be Made By All, 2014

  • Los estómagos

    Poesía

    Madrid: La Bella Varsovia, 2015

  • Pasarás de moda

    35 poetas jóvenes en español

    en selección de Enrique Adrián Martínez, Luna Miguel y Jesús Carmona-Robles

    Editorial Montea, 2015

  • Stomachs

    translated by Luis Silva

    Sacramento, CA: Scrambler Books, 2016

  • El dedo. Breves apuntes sobre la masturbación femenina

    [Ensayo]

    Madrid: Capitán Swing, 2016

  • El arrecife de las sirenas

    Madrid: La Bella Varsovia, 2017

  • El funeral de Lolita

    novela

    Barcelona: Lumen, 2018

  • El coloquio de las perras

    [Ensayo]

    Madrid: Capitán Swing, 2019

  • Hazme volar

    [cuento infantil]

    la Galera, 2019

  • Il funerale di Lolita

    Solferino, 2019

Links
  • Luna Miguel's Blog

    Website
  • Luna Miguel @ instagram

    Website
  • Luna Miguel @ Capitán Swing

    Website
  • The Body Poetic: An Interview With Luna Miguel

    [The Quietus, 2015]

    Website

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