文章基本信息

标题：Medina del Campo, Castile.
作者：Barber, Jennifer
期刊名称：Harvard Review
印刷版ISSN：1077-2901
出版年度：2006
期号：June
语种：English
出版社：Harvard Review

摘要：

 The angle of two crooked streets  harboring a slender patch of shade  between the first and middle gates.  My body clock is off. I'm hungry, I need to eat.  Nothing is open. A stork unfolds from its nest on the bell tower  and circles the empty square.  Abrahan Melamed, the chief rabbi's son,  became a New Christian in the spring of 1492,  a trickle of font water dripping down his neck.  I don't know what I'm looking for,  staring like an idiot as a woman steers  past me with her shopping bag  over the mismatched cobble stones,  gone behind the grillwork of a door.  At the one cafe in bleaching light, a plate of olives appears.  Salt is thicker than blood, I want to say to the waiter.  Now he brings water. Now bread.

Medina del Campo, Castile.

Barber, Jennifer

The angle
of two
crooked streets

harboring
a slender
patch of shade

between the first
and middle
gates.

My body clock
is off. I'm hungry,
I need to eat.

Nothing is open.
A stork unfolds
from its nest on the bell tower

and circles
the empty square.

Abrahan Melamed,
the chief rabbi's son,

became a New Christian
in the spring
of 1492,

a trickle of font water
dripping down his neck.

I don't know
what I'm looking for,

staring like an idiot
as a woman steers

past me with
her shopping bag

over the mismatched
cobble stones,

gone behind
the grillwork of a door.

At the one cafe
in bleaching light,
a plate of olives appears.

Salt is thicker
than blood,
I want to say to the waiter.

Now he brings water.
Now bread.