“There are radios with antennas in the streets and in the cars, playing Always by Atlantic Starr (from 1987), playing all the time, in the loop.


The essence: Alembic from border farms.”


“The cachaça’s smell made the iron’s journey noticeable for the next few hours of that night. A long time before the sun came up, at the exact moment of the quiet hum of a step, she ran with the wind of the rain to come in the direction of the federal police building located in the center of the city. Her body was with the iron in her extreme fingertips. Her center became a hum from a non-water. Her other peripheries became an iron in broken pieces. Her entire first layer of skin became a specific rough texture.”