Eyelids flutter one time. Dizzy. Two times, confused. Three times. Focus finds me, there is light, I unravel. My freshly plucked muscles are stubborn and red. I am nauseous with the longevity of the day. I can grind my white bones, I can bite my pink tongue. There are certain things that I will always be able to do that I am certain will save me from a bee’s nest belly and a throbbing head.
1. I will return here. Back to this valley. This old mountain will still be here, this time, colored like rust. I plan on sighing, I plan on waking up early, I plan on wearing black.
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2. An Annotated Bibliography of the Late Poetess Ignacia Jimena Del Barranco
Del Barranco, I.J. (1981).
Signales Desde La Barranca (Signs from The Gorge)
Mexico City, Mexico. Publicaciones de Avila Camacho.
(Her first book, widely regarded by critics as what would have been the novel of the century, if this had been written in the 17th century, and only if in the 17th century women were allowed to wear pants.)
Del Barranco, I.J. (1981)
La Comedia De La Vida De La Luz (Una Tragedia). (The Comedy of The Life of Light- A Tragedy.)
Mexico City, Mexico. Publicaciones de Avila Camacho.
(Her sophomore attempt at visceral realism, hailed by critics as the novel of the decade, if decades had hands that stretched out half-a century, Ignacia-Jimena’s work would be the hangnail of the thumb.)
Del Barranco, I.J. (1985).
La Quema De Brujas (Una Comedia.) (The Burning Witches: A Comedy).
Tepoztlan, Mexico. Publicaciones de Avila Camacho.
(Written after Ignacia-Jimena denounced both God and Man, it is rumored this was originally written in her own menstrual blood. Marginally regarded in marginalized literary circles as a scathing commentary on the temporality of women’s lives within the post-colonial deserts of Mexico, conceived from a hyper-real framework and delivered by the Lettered City. Copies can occasionally be found on accident in church basements. If Clarice Lispector had a small, ugly, brown little sister, Critics noted it would be Ignacia-Jimena.)
Del Barranco, I.J. (1986).
Quien Es Ignacia Jimena? (Una Comedia Tragica). (Who is Ignacia-Jimena? A Comedic Tragedy.)
Pategonia, Argentina. Publicaciones Paloma Negra.
(At this point, critics began wondering why Del Barranco’s work was still being published. Rumors swirled through the literary bourgeois of Latin America that Ignacia-Jimena Del Barranco was the pen name of the highly esteemed genius, painter, and poet, Javier Garcia Cortez, who was playing a joke on them all. Garcia-Cortez denied this rumor, but noted that Del Barranco’s work was marked with all the signs desperation, soaked in self-pity, and dried out in a Maquiladora somewhere in Arizona. ”All things that I find hilarious,” Remarked Garcia-Cortez over a sip of brandy.)
3. It is unknown if she burned in a plane crash or if she drowned in a far away sea.
