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I was so thirsty, you cracked an egg into my mouth. I ate it & thanked you. We were so rich then. I imagined the moon, a being I'd never seen, in every nail you'd use to tack the tarp over our heads. I confused hens clucking for the ringing of the phone you'd never let me answer. With a spatula to my ear, I'd pretend to be a woman on TV & say: ¿Bueno? Your anger was the gun you kept by the door, my fear, the knife I used to chop onions. One night you confused the sound of a snake rattling for rain. The snake opened its jaw & its fangs were the color of mud. You reached for my thighs just before you died & I couldn't face you. Once you stopped breathing I rubbed your beard between my hands & played the most beautiful cumbia. We danced for the first time since our wedding.