David Buuck likes yarn. He thinks it is a good material with which to measure time and lines. Lines can mark or they can build a poem. A sentence. Cumulative sentences. "I remeber" sentences.
On my ancestral altar that houses Guadalupe, Elekes, Santa Rita de Cassia, I also have spinning yarn from Cecilia Vicuña. She said it was intended to be memory, the color of menses. Scorpio maroon. I connect with her as an indigenous inheritor, as a writer, as a person that bleeds dead blood belonging to that side of the Rio Grande. See Bhanu Kapil and Amy Catanzano's face at Naropa University, also Dodie Bellamy.
This is a translation and mis-transcription of Cecilia Vicuña's documentary performance peace in Caleu, Chile.
Caleu means Mapuche transforming. Is dreaming on the side of the sleeper and the very children know the meaning. A workshop of their own remembering, remembered. Arriving without them knowing explanations without the strand. That has the memory and the feeling of returning to that town of Caleu.
- Bajo
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