Gravity in the Fall

Letras Libres

Factuality

Ownership

Trauma. Etymology. From ancient Greek (“traûma”), rupture, wound. I don’t think parents understand the gravity of that deaf law that knocks down apples, the exact gap between bodies, the crying that is copied into the flesh as it falls into the world. They don’t understand that they were clean deer, of whole blood, with glasses against blindness, ignoring the dry blow of the pipes. The first steps: clumsy sketches of lines that would collide wi…