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Barbara Kingsolver: "Meksiko mengakui Anda melalui lubang batu melengk...

"Meksiko mengakui Anda melalui lubang batu melengkung ke halaman di jantungnya yang dipenuhi pepohonan, di mana seekor anjing membelai dinding dan seorang pelayan bergegas melewati tirai melati untuk membawa semangkuk sup tortilla, mengukus dengan ketumbar dan jeruk nipis. Kucing menguntit kadal di antara pot tanah liat di sekitar air mancur, burung merpati menetap di tanaman merambat berbunga dan berdoa bersama, bersyukur atas keberadaan kadal. Tanaman pot menghembuskan nafas tanpa suara, melebihi pot tanah liat mereka. Seperti anak-anak Meksiko, mereka berdiri terjepit dan bersabar dalam sepatu tahun lalu yang terlalu kecil."

--- Barbara Kingsolver

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.