Every morning, over her first coffee, Javiera reads a poem by someone else ten times, trying to memorize it. Then she has breakfast with her daughter – the two of them live in a small house on Cerro Miraflores – and drops her off at school, and her day is spent working precarious, badly paid jobs. That’s until eleven at night, when the poet sits down at the dining room table and writes the poem she read in the morning just as she remembers it. The degree of the divergence varies a lot, but it’s always there. The idea is to recall the poem many times over the course of the day, and for life, so
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