José J. Martínez Jul 13, 2015:

To the asker... you should erase this one and create another question... a hair curl is much different thaan a biceps curl.

Cecilia Gowar Jul 13, 2015:

To clarify: This is the whole poem:

While my sixteen-year-old son sleeps,/

my twelve-year-old daughter/

stumbles into the bathroom at six a.m./

plugs in the curling iron/

squeezes into faded jeans/

curls her hair carefully/

strokes Aztec Blue shadow on her eyelids/

smooth’s Frosted Mauve blusher on her cheeks/

outlines her mouth in Neon pink/

peers into the mirror, mirror on the wall/

frowns at her face, her eyes, her skin,/

not fair./


At night this daughter stumbles off to bed at nine/

eyes half-shut while my son/

jogs a mile in the cold dark/

then lifts weights in the garage/

curls and bench presses/

expanding biceps, triceps pectorals,/

one-handed push-s, one hundred sit-ups/

peers into the mirror, mirror and frowns too./


So in the requested fragment, "curls" is in reference to the hair curling mentioned before. Nothing to do with the presses.

nahuelhuapi Jul 12, 2015:

Se trata de hacer flexiones y levantar pesas

José J. Martínez Jul 12, 2015:

En el argot de ejercicios con pesas, los términos en inglés se entienden en el español de México. De joven yo usaba esos términos. Si se requiere de ponerlos en castellano, posiblemente buscando en páginas de ejercicios con pesas se encontrarán los más adecuados. http://search.aol.com/aol/imageDetails?s_it=imageDetails&q=e...