In the Name of Salome
“I studied my face in the mirror: the same eyes, mouth, big ears (oh, how I hated them!), the nose I wished were a little less broad, the springy hair I couldn’t tamp down—in short, I was the very same Salomé Ureña, but now everyone seemed to point, to make a low bow at the waist, or dip down in a schoolgirl curtsy, and say, “Buenos días, poetisa.”
IT’S AS IF I had on a disguise, a famous face, behind which I watched people who just a few months ago would not have said good day to me on the ...street suddenly smile with deference and ask, “And what do you think of the weather we’re having, Señorita Poetisa?”
“Hot,” I would say in my terse way. But then, because I could see they were waiting for me to say more, I would add, “To be expected in the summer.”
“Salomé says we should expect more heat this summer,” I heard myself misquoted.
“Did you hear the wonderful tone of irony when she said, ‘To be expected in the summer’?”MoreLess
IT’S AS IF I had on a disguise, a famous face, behind which I watched people who just a few months ago would not have said good day to me on the ...street suddenly smile with deference and ask, “And what do you think of the weather we’re having, Señorita Poetisa?”
“Hot,” I would say in my terse way. But then, because I could see they were waiting for me to say more, I would add, “To be expected in the summer.”
“Salomé says we should expect more heat this summer,” I heard myself misquoted.
“Did you hear the wonderful tone of irony when she said, ‘To be expected in the summer’?”MoreLess
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