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Ramona's Construction Project: An Abundance of Embryos, or Hosanna, Hosanna - Poem
Literary Review, Summer, 2000 by Harry Morales
For my mother, Julia
From across the years, a grandson hails the venture begun in a clapboard house on a farm in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, producing a generation; this is the tally: Eight varones : Jose Maria, Jose Luis, Don Juan, Guango, Pedrito, Roberto, Angel, and Mario; NO TWINS or TRIPLETS or QUADRUPLETS, can you imagine? And seven hembras: Fidela, Francisca, Cruz, Angelica, Manuela, Andrea, and Julia, the tomboy and confidant; OR QUINTUPLETS or SEXTUPLETS, can you imagine? Birthed and fathered one-at-a-time by the same Andres, her uterus and pelvis softened and trembling like gelatin, grandmother Ramona mumbles: Hosanna, Hosanna, fifteen will suffice. At last it's time to sleep.
Harry Morales, a Spanish literary translator, is known for his numerous translations of the works of Latin-American writers Mario Benedetti and Reinaldo Arenas, and the Mexican novelist and critic, Ilan Stavans
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