<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570328" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Refugio's Hair</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the old days of our family,<br>My grandmother was a young woman<br>Whose hair was as long as the river.<br>She lived with her sisters on the ranch<br>La Calera--The Land of the Lime--<br>And her days were happy.<br>But her uncle Carlos lived there too,<br>Carlos whose soul had the edge of a knife.<br>One day, to teach her to ride a horse,<br>He made her climb on the fastest one,<br>Bareback, and sit there<br>As he held its long face in his arms.<br>And then he did the unspeakable deed <br>For which he would always be remembered:<br>He called for the handsome baby Pirr&iacute;n<br>And he placed the child in her arms.<br>With that picture of a Madonna on horseback<br>He slapped the shank of the horse's rear leg.<br>The horse did what a horse must,<br>Racing full toward the bright horizon.<br>But first he ran under the &aacute;lamo trees<br>To rid his back of this unfair weight:<br>This woman full of tears<br>And this baby full of love.<br>When they reached the trees and went under,<br>Her hair, which had trailed her,<br>Equal in its magnificence to the tail of the horse,<br>That hair rose up and flew into the branches<br>As if it were a thousand arms,<br>All of them trying to save her.<br>The horse ran off and left her,<br>The baby still in her arms,<br>The two of them hanging from her hair.<br>The baby looked only at her<br>And did not cry, so steady was her cradle.<br>Her sisters came running to save them.<br>But the hair would not let go.<br>From its fear it held on and had to be cut,<br>All of it, from her head.<br>From that day on, my grandmother <br>Wore her hair short like a scream,<br>But it was long like a river in her sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alberto+R%26iacute%3Bos">Alberto R&iacute;os</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570328" data-title="Refugio's Hair de Alberto R&iacute;os" data-description="In the old days of our family, My grandmother was a young woman Whose hair was as long as the river. She lived with her sisters on the ranch La Calera--The Land of the Lime-- And her days were happy. But her uncle Carlos lived there too, Carlos wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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