Healer
Come brother
women girls come
men boys come
if you want to laugh, laugh
if you don’t, then cry
if you want to heal your heart
come
I’ll be here
I’ll be waiting here.
Tlapajtiketl
Xi ualakan no ijniuan
xi ualakan ziuapilziuamen
xi ualakan okichpitlakamen
tlaj taj tij neki tij uetzkas
uan tlaj ta amo tij neki ti chokas
tlaj tij neki ti mo yolpajtis
xi uala
na nikan ni mits chias
naj nikan nijitstos.
Ileana Villarreal is a writer, translator and playwright based in Mexico. Her play
Un propósito claro won the 2010 Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Joven Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo. Her recent translations include Mardonio Carballo’s
Xolo, Adelheid Roosen’s
Safari Tepito, and Carlos Meléndez’s
Hysteria.
