Bug’s World and The Three Tales are pieces that utilize structured improvisation techniques that are informed by the text and narrative of the poem, “Bien pudiera ser” by Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938 Suiza/Argentina).
Pudiera ser que todo lo que todo lo que en verso he sentido
No fuera más que aquello que nunca pudo ser,
No fuera más que algo vedado y reprimido
De familia en familia, de mujer en mujer.
Dicen que en los solares de mi gente, medido
Estaba todo aquello que se debía hacer…
Dicen que silenciosas las mujeres han sido
De mi casa materna…Ah, bien pudiera ser…
A veces en mi madre apuntaron antojos
De liberarse, pero, se le subió a los ojos
Una honda amargura, y en la sombra lloró.
Y todo eso mordiente, vencido, mutilado,
Todo eso que se hallaba en su alma encerrado,
Pienso que sin quererlo lo he libertado yo.
“It may be”
Maybe all that my verses have expressed
is simply what was never allowed to be;
Only what was hidden and suppressed
from woman to woman, from family to family.
They say that in my house tradition was
the rule by which one did things properly;
they say the women of my mother´s house
were always silent – yes, it well may be.
Sometimes my mother felt longings to be free,
but then a bitter wave rose to her eyes
and in the shadows she wept.
And all this-caustic, betrayed, chastisedall
this that in her soul she tightly kept,
I think that, without knowing, I have set it free.
