Malva Flores
translated by Jennifer Buentello


from Galápagos

Hunger

I knew that squirrels, in fact, could simulate the song
of a bird in heat to attract a bird and eat it

Adolfo Castañón


Enigmatic, no? The trick and tedium of the prose it sings as it climbs up a tree. Jumping like a
bird so that it may charm a real bird, but is diminished by lukewarm prose, fond of singing.

Between the real bird and the one that sings there, there is shade and hunger.