Building castles in Spain

En New York morreu fracasado, trinta e tres anos de América, Ramón Rodríguez Iglesias
que tiña traballado todos ises anos no porto da cidade,
na colleita de mazás en California
nas minas de Pensilvanya
na sega do trigo en Minnesota
indo dun estado a outro soñando, asentado cas pernas afora, nas portas dos vagós de cárrega dos ferrocarrís
pra ter, era seu soño, un castelo ergueito sobor rochas cobertas de argazos, de percebes, de patelas, de nécoras,
sobor dunha mar fonda, de pulpos pretos,
na costa atlántica galega.
Un castelo cavilaba envolto en cincentas névoas e outas vagas
e que, sen sabelo, Ramón Rodríguez Iglesias tiña herdado facía moitos anos.

Cando morreu, ao seu sobriño desconocido, Dalmacio da Cruña,
quedáronlle do tío de América uns poucos dólares
e tamén o castelo ergueito sobor de rochas, broslado de escumas da mar,
que o tío americano tiña soñado
nas minas de Pensilvanya, no porto de New York, nos trigaes de Minnesota, nos pomareiros de California.

Building castles in Spain

In New York, Ramón Rodríguez Iglesias died a failure, thirty-three years in America.
Having worked all those years in the city's port,
in the apple harvest in California,
in the mines of Pennsylvania,
in the wheat harvest in Minnesota,
going from one state to another dreaming, seated
with legs dangling from doors of goods waggons on railways,
to own, this was his dream, a castle rising above rocks covered
with seaweed, with barnacles, with crabs of many kinds,
and above a deeps sea, with is dark octopuses,
on the Galician Atlantic coast.
He was musting upon a castle wrapped in ash-grey mists and high waves,
one which, unawares, Ramón Rodríguez Iglesias had inherited many years earlier.

When he died, the nephew he did not know, Dalmacio from Corunna,
was left a few dollars by his uncle,
and also the castle rising above rock, embroidered with sea-foam,
that his uncle in America had dreamed about
in the mines of Pennsylvania, in the port o New York, in the wheatfields of Minnesota,
in the orchards of California.



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Luís Seoane


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