tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88459162998836388852024-03-05T01:15:24.749-08:00juntando palavras ("bringing words together")
poesia, crônica, fotografia, tradução//poetry, stories, photography, translation
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Unauthorized reproduction of material from this blog is expressly prohibited Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-45122919682458223962024-01-13T07:32:00.000-08:002024-01-13T07:32:54.613-08:00Um poema de Ferreira Gullar / A poem by Ferreira Gullar (my version!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5iUEl0AQK4bdGTWPLdmM_-myYOEC3TexlOdR4bIGIdt7FFHIeGYE0SuFyH7kHV43iJsh_D8zkF2doi_Md6rmEPorcd73JJMxj2XZn80MQZi_W0NXNFHk0bw8Bg4jZew68iQ-n9POpDOJ7eHfAuZMtkseDtKUIJ1mwb3KGPDnPvI7A5ZEFjyA2eVcF1L_E/s4000/20240110_175836.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5iUEl0AQK4bdGTWPLdmM_-myYOEC3TexlOdR4bIGIdt7FFHIeGYE0SuFyH7kHV43iJsh_D8zkF2doi_Md6rmEPorcd73JJMxj2XZn80MQZi_W0NXNFHk0bw8Bg4jZew68iQ-n9POpDOJ7eHfAuZMtkseDtKUIJ1mwb3KGPDnPvI7A5ZEFjyA2eVcF1L_E/s320/20240110_175836.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhjA5jL4xzwA9jkNUSZTtSIf_fuoiHYasYJ1k1WP0HfbqgJ4f8aASv_COhxBVtYaF4KYyImaHpvKRd9KDvKmDQ7dw_YvkWUvLeQhbn_cWN5cQoqGo4sN2oNeG59LQPAsqHNJ7qDxHBWDA9xl6U1zPgLqaH44v1Bh_2pIemoKlvA_A93VlHrUfM1iiGZAH/s3436/self%20transl%20X.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3436" data-original-width="2409" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhjA5jL4xzwA9jkNUSZTtSIf_fuoiHYasYJ1k1WP0HfbqgJ4f8aASv_COhxBVtYaF4KYyImaHpvKRd9KDvKmDQ7dw_YvkWUvLeQhbn_cWN5cQoqGo4sN2oNeG59LQPAsqHNJ7qDxHBWDA9xl6U1zPgLqaH44v1Bh_2pIemoKlvA_A93VlHrUfM1iiGZAH/s320/self%20transl%20X.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br />Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-17522232030068541492023-10-14T09:36:00.001-07:002023-10-14T09:36:13.278-07:00Segunda edição/Second edition!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmWNIU2wM1iLp5R6ZQDOfmy9oRX59N95RZ5HtYNbzmEHaNk0BvK1rh-PKTZoaXQIBsKf74vSVZNOK8OntZ5szz3CH56iW6iMEP87zMy31U3dpfPQHrsVKoVEJhatpL1mxMw1Dldyt94kegeb1_PTqmnpd3u4sOKOPKcL1G8NkXTBfiymgL2Zp2uRko5fC/s673/big_cover_front.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="453" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmWNIU2wM1iLp5R6ZQDOfmy9oRX59N95RZ5HtYNbzmEHaNk0BvK1rh-PKTZoaXQIBsKf74vSVZNOK8OntZ5szz3CH56iW6iMEP87zMy31U3dpfPQHrsVKoVEJhatpL1mxMw1Dldyt94kegeb1_PTqmnpd3u4sOKOPKcL1G8NkXTBfiymgL2Zp2uRko5fC/w245-h365/big_cover_front.png" width="245" /></a></div><br /><p>https://clubedeautores.com.br/books/search?where=books&what=Found%20in%20Translation&fbclid=IwAR2UdyrlekYImAzr-_Os9kZN8oSvE5ABwsW_VM9oPm5ugAGqGjq2cSSMy28</p><p><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Candara, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"In the heart of
words, <i>Found in Translation,</i> in the sweetness of languages: Miriam
Adelman here in poetry – her love for the world in the calm of Saturdays, the
splendor of the high-speed moment on a road that is the immensity of the
horizon rendered possible. Oceans roll on without names and it is after the
rains that the red crumbs of earth sparkle and then we look at what we have and
can touch whatever the weather, the bicycle wheel, the seasons, and the harbor
lights. There are hands that have been waiting for months hands of water hands
that follow the surface and the depths hands that sing and make us dance..."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Candara, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Candara, sans-serif;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Candara, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"No coração das palavras, <i>Found in translation</i>, no dulçor das línguas: Miriam Adelman aqui em
poesia – o amor pelo mundo na calmaria dos sábados, o resplendor do instante de
alta velocidade numa estrada que é imensidão do horizonte feito possível.
Oceanos rolam sem títulos e é depois das chuvas que os farelos vermelhos
cintilam e então olhamos para o que temos e podemos tocar o que seja o tempo, a
roda da bicicleta, as estações e as luzes do porto. Temos mãos de meses de
espera mãos de água mãos que acompanham a superfície e o profundo mãos que
cantam e fazem dançar..."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Candara, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Candara, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Luci Collin.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><br /><p></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-54429383475946427632023-08-17T09:01:00.004-07:002023-08-17T09:01:58.034-07:00"Mini Barbie"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguo2AgplG7zdOtraf2PzqyTLYSAC1n3TTBp6CSE5APr5QUw33yf4ec6TG8zGW_C4bDNCdL02sEvkI7lpWZOb6XOIkf1vdvK7jCADRSw29dWD76wApPqg-FrU17OesAhCcwe_WLbx9nYOg5jWQClH5Js2UP2vdvuWXimPt8bhbpW1qW92y8vc0X1xpms-SA/s1280/mb%206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguo2AgplG7zdOtraf2PzqyTLYSAC1n3TTBp6CSE5APr5QUw33yf4ec6TG8zGW_C4bDNCdL02sEvkI7lpWZOb6XOIkf1vdvK7jCADRSw29dWD76wApPqg-FrU17OesAhCcwe_WLbx9nYOg5jWQClH5Js2UP2vdvuWXimPt8bhbpW1qW92y8vc0X1xpms-SA/w592-h333/mb%206.jpg" width="592" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-3710366702886716302023-08-07T07:38:00.011-07:002023-08-10T16:37:32.995-07:00Mary Oliver, em tradução minha!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeCdHo0ccGf51xU9PJZknqoWHNLcibim8sYzGsU2s5IY2UQAw2AQwwSYrBFTOlZJB1uQExduKIEthd0-gHGIjudscGsVlTJfeoBC0dHgdzmykZLGtyM8a675LbtxWK08LJXSf3MmnNEMLNugTED-zIoVVlyTh3TrZXbriq19FIrPRVQass4V9eXMJlg7tG/s1755/mary%20oliver%20transl_page-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1240" height="803" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeCdHo0ccGf51xU9PJZknqoWHNLcibim8sYzGsU2s5IY2UQAw2AQwwSYrBFTOlZJB1uQExduKIEthd0-gHGIjudscGsVlTJfeoBC0dHgdzmykZLGtyM8a675LbtxWK08LJXSf3MmnNEMLNugTED-zIoVVlyTh3TrZXbriq19FIrPRVQass4V9eXMJlg7tG/w567-h803/mary%20oliver%20transl_page-0001.jpg" width="567" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-37943487316153438942023-08-05T16:54:00.003-07:002023-08-05T16:54:22.537-07:00HERE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9k53MCLh0J2BS_tWT82prQZi4L9_b2E53pc3XiDBtY__H6OiGHdmHztrOllxY1vhqSs6Fbf2HwB9s2iv7w3sPswk9USlQWoT4NMZDR88IaNaVbQLqkE9oAilw0c7BaHU7HarQUs4QQmCdv9WDB4BNP3vYxxiDfTk0gL6MENS49ixza6u4R7qIrlxyrCH-/s1280/SOUTHS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9k53MCLh0J2BS_tWT82prQZi4L9_b2E53pc3XiDBtY__H6OiGHdmHztrOllxY1vhqSs6Fbf2HwB9s2iv7w3sPswk9USlQWoT4NMZDR88IaNaVbQLqkE9oAilw0c7BaHU7HarQUs4QQmCdv9WDB4BNP3vYxxiDfTk0gL6MENS49ixza6u4R7qIrlxyrCH-/w656-h369/SOUTHS.jpg" width="656" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-34519461293048533092023-08-05T07:12:00.000-07:002023-08-05T07:12:21.022-07:00Minas on my mind.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIuWlchQt7qduGiFfVGrcOIUo8PUMayqJ-ki5IpzUt8Qzq5seJcqbF3eDdITc6uNGF7bsnGErl7_FhU8EPxc4GRSWnUAHJEkAItPy_wArFDhtI2mWLNfh534r5GyYPlG0zYR0lld-OAhCaGf3_2eu_cijAq7wDP4fjW6OtCE7jBHBS62KVtLS1vnPieMoe/s2000/poem%20slide_page-0001%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2000" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIuWlchQt7qduGiFfVGrcOIUo8PUMayqJ-ki5IpzUt8Qzq5seJcqbF3eDdITc6uNGF7bsnGErl7_FhU8EPxc4GRSWnUAHJEkAItPy_wArFDhtI2mWLNfh534r5GyYPlG0zYR0lld-OAhCaGf3_2eu_cijAq7wDP4fjW6OtCE7jBHBS62KVtLS1vnPieMoe/w491-h276/poem%20slide_page-0001%20(2).jpg" width="491" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-23348714405842265662023-06-25T17:51:00.006-07:002023-08-07T08:21:24.067-07:00Vievee Francis. TENTAR DIZER DE OUTRA MANEIRA (versão minha)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgniJ9TDmoEiCsajeMov0XqVlyL8HFeN1dKK6lfixJ08K7926xOfZ8Y1WFBPklM1l0pzZIC10juyspSRl79PRzysTSJImUacONgUvf6quu40wNLr2jZFmhIScscidstV4INtCu4zP4ngR6_2J3Mp_Diu1avBo91fv3knyLIgTzxnrtnrs5_I_9HLGOESZBt/s1755/Another%20attempt%20at%20the%20telling%20%20transl_page-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1240" height="826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgniJ9TDmoEiCsajeMov0XqVlyL8HFeN1dKK6lfixJ08K7926xOfZ8Y1WFBPklM1l0pzZIC10juyspSRl79PRzysTSJImUacONgUvf6quu40wNLr2jZFmhIScscidstV4INtCu4zP4ngR6_2J3Mp_Diu1avBo91fv3knyLIgTzxnrtnrs5_I_9HLGOESZBt/w584-h826/Another%20attempt%20at%20the%20telling%20%20transl_page-0001.jpg" width="584" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-37713642419154283402023-05-15T16:29:00.004-07:002023-05-15T16:29:54.336-07:00Proud to share!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lindíssimos livros que tive o prazer de traduzir, português-inglês! Grata às autoras pela bela parceria.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Logo chegará mais um aqui em casa, recém finalizado (depois mostro).</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Que venham mais!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0NyZmvDrjHDC09AAFTQR1_uRRHBwu5fmJQesj_81qTcxfhIIF0__ocB2qMlpSEPeIM4MDRE9Msfs7La_5IMQgaQ4TzmMf3T9bNPMz9bqx_BqvHeHd5AkFreLL53ttySx32Mz-fPS8Dwyap9gKeAu8xOszC7Afd4VkDsyYFBlzHSQOn5DPArS4izXTw/s2048/translated%20books.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0NyZmvDrjHDC09AAFTQR1_uRRHBwu5fmJQesj_81qTcxfhIIF0__ocB2qMlpSEPeIM4MDRE9Msfs7La_5IMQgaQ4TzmMf3T9bNPMz9bqx_BqvHeHd5AkFreLL53ttySx32Mz-fPS8Dwyap9gKeAu8xOszC7Afd4VkDsyYFBlzHSQOn5DPArS4izXTw/s320/translated%20books.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div></div>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-78808111696355067222023-04-29T17:18:00.007-07:002023-04-29T17:18:52.008-07:00Nova tradução minha de um poema de Denise Duhamel.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy2YYnlY5ptvVJU8LGtEZ6maE3CSB504MdabrxILuIkPBLvBLBPFIq-NRWVwhKkO-bKLhw227tnuq1Vkg7kORwrpQzPQ4x-VETMX1QaBzWFexm9LW4rmawxRkVDpEndQqsUKusJJ1R3ZkdL0WXmvh3mxnDT_9IFUFTTtVKWHNlisRHp5GY90WRdTopXQ/s2339/new%20denise%20transl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2339" data-original-width="1654" height="970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy2YYnlY5ptvVJU8LGtEZ6maE3CSB504MdabrxILuIkPBLvBLBPFIq-NRWVwhKkO-bKLhw227tnuq1Vkg7kORwrpQzPQ4x-VETMX1QaBzWFexm9LW4rmawxRkVDpEndQqsUKusJJ1R3ZkdL0WXmvh3mxnDT_9IFUFTTtVKWHNlisRHp5GY90WRdTopXQ/w686-h970/new%20denise%20transl.jpg" width="686" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-40194253587177411422023-04-02T05:16:00.000-07:002023-04-02T05:16:06.755-07:00Fresco<p> This one was just published online!</p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.poetrydistillery.com/poems/2023/3/19/fresco</p><p><br /></p><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1679263242684_34178" style="background-color: #faf9f5; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #282f28; font-family: "Droid Serif"; font-size: 17px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.51px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 17px 17px; position: relative; width: 1313.2px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">she called out for father<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" /> but it was mother who came.</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">the walls of the city had been </p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">painted blood red.</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" /> scenes of destruction were everywhere,<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" /> and families, even armies, indulging</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">their last supper, a field strewn</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with wine goblets, plates broken, </p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bones of boar and quail.</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" /> <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">(this was before they invented perspective)</em></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">lastly a vision:</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">a dark coiling corridor</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">and a single atrium,</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">splattered in</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">light.<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" /></p></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1679430736247_2949" style="background-color: #faf9f5; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #282f28; font-family: "Droid Serif"; font-size: 17px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.51px; margin: 52.525px auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 1313.2px;"></div>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-29587283255403521862023-04-01T05:45:00.016-07:002023-04-02T05:06:04.795-07:00new one... evoluindo ainda<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> (Acordei hoje e escrevi este poema, que na verdade é mais como um fragmento de um poema longo em que venho trabalhando - em inglês, embora por vezes há coisas que nascem em português!)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">O dia
amanheceu querendo nos agradar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Uma mulher
entoava uma música.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Começou a chuva
fina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Ressoavam as
palavras do poeta, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>alguém que eu já conhecia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">lembrando-me
de cada gesto da manhã :<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a criança
que <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">aparece na
sacada perguntando por que seu cachorro não<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">voltou, o início da jornada do vendedor de bilhetes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">de loteria,
a moça chegando para abrir a lanchonete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>boias<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ou a âncora.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">As músicas
eram bonitas<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>e nem do tudo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">tristes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Começava a chover mais forte e descendia
das<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">montanhas
uma névoa fria<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>envolvendo os
corpos dos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pés à cabeça<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>e minhas mãos também encetavam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">uma metamorfose
em veias azuis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Uma
mulher<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- outra - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>que usava um lenço escarlate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">nos cabelos
asselvajados<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>chegou para dizer que não
havia tanto motivo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">de preocupação<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>que a letra logo <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">seria<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nossa<o:p></o:p></span></p> ****<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">[version]</span><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The hastening day was trying to
please us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A woman began to wail out a
tune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There were fine threads of drizzle
falling and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">the words that rang out were those
of old man,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">a fine master poet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>calling
me to cradle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">each gesture of the early
morning:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the child who<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">came out on the balcony, asking why
his dog had not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">returned from the night out, the
lady selling lottery tickets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">on the streetcorner, a girl lifting
the heavy awning of a diner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buoys or anchors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The songs were lovely and in fact<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not so sad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">It was beginning to rain and coming down from the mountains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">was a heavy fog<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>clinging to our bodies from head to toe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">and my hands too began to show
their purply veins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A woman appeared<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>another -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wearing a scarlet
headscarf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">over her wilding tresses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looked me straight in the eye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">as if to say <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there
was not such great reason for worry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The lyrics would soon be our own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p></div>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-90394034881455569582023-01-29T13:53:00.027-08:002023-01-30T17:46:11.581-08:00 There you are, fraying. There you are, living.<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">For Bruno, in memoriam.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="wrap-sc-1krnyv6-0" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Who are we when we are not with each other?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="wrap-sc-1krnyv6-0" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who
are we when we are not alone?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="wrap-sc-1krnyv6-0" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="wrap-sc-1krnyv6-0" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bhanu Kapil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps I was never good at tending the
plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would skip a day, mess up the
schedule, let our almost-bonsai grow large and wild and impossible to
uproot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But
you were a friend to the green will to thrive. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rubbery fronds sucking</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> droplets of water into their cells, shoots like nascent tongues suckling greedily for nutrients. No matter the
chaos.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In Bruges there was a time to go back to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat alone on a bench and pressed my eyelids
together as tightly as I could, wanting only to hear the pattern of hooves
clacking over cobblestone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Groping for
the past is a merciless task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
children smirk at our repeated stories and surge impatiently forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mementos sit on our solitary laps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Sometimes paths cross, as if silvery birds, wings
touching as they swoop in sudden synch. There are fish in the pond and an
abrupt burst of sunlight, it takes your breath away. Other times paths are
woven together, albeit slowly and despite the length of intervals and stitch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Two chilly cities, take your pick. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long fugue of hours wrapped in the warm breath
of cafés. Whorls of smoke and a wintry sun casting a shadow of delicate leaves
against walls, spilling onto the sidewalks. Ways of being alive. (How many do
we know?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then pick an idea or two. Our
river is bursting with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
downstream rush, like shiny salmon pushed along belly up, toward the distant
blackness of the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-41636678234679164072022-11-12T15:05:00.130-08:002022-11-20T15:54:42.014-08:00History lesson in Hervás (first draft!)<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Evening falls between mountains.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I walk the stone paved alleys, close my eyes to capture</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The scented mixture of damp rock and wood burning stoves</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As if there were oil lamps still glowing on the streets</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And sturdy donkeys and cattle on the ground floor of buildings,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">their huddled bodies warming the upper abodes</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">, some home to Jews,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> others to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Christians, but equally lulled in the temporary silence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> of respite. Our guide is Maria Sara and I am here to</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">translate </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">for others, these stories repeated to children</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And tourists, to be savored or forgotten. We conjure the next day: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">women stirring cauldrons of broth, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">smoking meats,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">in the upper reaches, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> letting fumes out into the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">village , </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">or youngsters running behind their elders, herding sheep out</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">into the hills beyond bridge and river. Animal remnants</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and aprons set out to dry. Incessant ringing of hooves</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">on cobblestones, and the strays who slip through narrow allows where </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">a hefty soul or person with too many burdens can barely fit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> We slip through </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">sideways.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Tonight, I surprise myself, f</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">inding most of the words to pass on these tidbits ,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">or stir gentle awe with tales of how once these peoples lived together</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">in peace. I stumble, but have</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> by my side smart friends:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">They pick up the clues, dredge up the phrases, evoke the chisel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">or the pulley, the mending of a broken spoke, the juniper pulled up from an</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">orchard. Adriana from Patagonia can read out the words in Hebrew or Ladino.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sandra, with her architect's eye, the signs of wear and repair.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ours is a kindly bunch. Entranced by a town, we nurture a thirst for knowing, and the</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Thickness of moonlight</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">. There has always been hardship. And wounds that open and close</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">and reopen. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Exiles, inquisitions. People who fall silent in the face of edicts, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">who pick up weapons </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">for the wrong war.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Any war.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPvdVi_Wva5ElCYrDF38tTGTXs4PeHMsTdHCr7ASkArq-V3rbdee6KCoZQtQt36DYTz8ESMikqAE7NOFTUM8HsV0-aN8gH8HeEfRTZQhlewLkOlHspd4sRHxXmpM_GrTbinANnsBEcn1_SN2EXHTKunpCdRJUS05iXQzeTpg0H2Ew2pBjS1mfXg4SYEw/s6016/alley%20(1%20de%201).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="6016" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPvdVi_Wva5ElCYrDF38tTGTXs4PeHMsTdHCr7ASkArq-V3rbdee6KCoZQtQt36DYTz8ESMikqAE7NOFTUM8HsV0-aN8gH8HeEfRTZQhlewLkOlHspd4sRHxXmpM_GrTbinANnsBEcn1_SN2EXHTKunpCdRJUS05iXQzeTpg0H2Ew2pBjS1mfXg4SYEw/w459-h307/alley%20(1%20de%201).jpg" width="459" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><p></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-47143473611134359962022-10-14T16:17:00.009-07:002022-11-11T23:42:28.791-08:00Airport<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">I was looking for a
quiet spot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">But here you only get
what you pay for <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">And a comfortable
chair, a place to stretch out your legs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">Before or after the
journey, it has all gotten pricey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">On the other side of
the divide, the business suit crowd <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">chows down, some
counting their calories,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">others indulging.
These are insatiable</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>times. My friend says we keep steady<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">at the wheel
because moving forward is the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">spell of sleep we've
been cast into, or because <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">we are bound by our
blood cells or our stories <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">to others
- they deserve their chance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">There is a fresh trail
of tears along the highway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">I just figured out why
my foot is hurting in time to my heart. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">I swallow my coffee, imagine myself telling the server</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"> or even the pilot</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"> that none of this </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">is the way we wanted
it to be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"> Instead, I just count my change,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pay the bill, mumble thanks, move on. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">Lucky
me, </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">I still have cash </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">for the wings, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">or the wind on my sails.</span></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-30220567089928748062022-10-01T19:39:00.006-07:002022-10-02T06:44:10.602-07:00RUINA (w.i.p)<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6Yw9OANED211oe00WgsESkjZUMwSemOyIZdbUorgKytS_Gt2HqMBMZhemHpsMVjOe0-RAL7Gl3WHqL50jD41q3nvI_4-GW5Xr9uxFQy8AJMIK_jM7HDWehh0w5FE0QD75Bm7wL7ASUsabzTZ9pjaUJ_AzZsnPOY9XHZr4uK1tCQRtPTu74lIhEfVug/s1280/Slide1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-15085229615800825442022-09-27T18:42:00.084-07:002022-09-28T15:42:49.254-07:00CARTA ABERTA AO CRIADOR/OPEN LETTER TO OUR CREATOR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</b><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.35pt;"><b>Here you have it again: working on the translation of this text by Fabio Flora*, and hoping to be able to take it to a reading soon!</b></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.35pt;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.35pt;"><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Com todo o respeito, Chefia:
bem que o Senhor podia aproveitar o domingo de Páscoa, as famílias reunidas, o
clima ensolarado de recomeço e mudança para apertar aquele botão (o reset,
fique bem claro) e reiniciar o sistema. Mais ou menos como Vossa Excelência fez
quando mandou o dilúvio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Só que desta vez, Patrão, sem
o coxinha do Noé, sem aquela arca ecologicamente incorreta e sem essa de salvar
só os casais héteros de cada espécie. Não pega bem. Não agrega valor ao
Paraíso. Sugestão: deixe apenas três amebas, para ver se de um ménage nasce
coisa melhor que o Homo bolsonaris gentilis – essa criatura que, dizem mas não
acredito, foi feita à Sua imagem e semelhança.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Não me entenda mal,
Eminência: se peço um replay em slow-motion da maior inundação de todos os
tempos – e uma garoa de asteroides junto, só para garantir –, é porque andamos
precisando muito de um reboot. Quem sabe com a página outra vez em branco nós,
e aí incluo Vossa Senhoria, não escrevamos certo finalmente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sem tanta linha torta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Um mundo sem glúten, sem hora
para acordar, sem segundas-feiras, sem celulares nos cinemas, sem livros de
autoajuda, sem frases bregas atribuídas a Clarice ou Machado, sem acento grave
ou vírgula onde não deve, sem fumantes e bebuns, sem juros, sem tomates
superfaturados, sem novelas ruins, sem filmes dublados, sem crise de fígado e
dor de cabeça, sem humoristas sem graça, sem reaças, sem filas, sem hora extra
e serão, sem guerras, sem canções cafonas para promover a paz, sem bandeirinhas
míopes, sem PM de TPM, sem manchetes sensacionalistas, sem bundas de plástico,
peitos de plástico, cérebros de plástico, corações de plástico – sem plástico,
enfim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Ah, e o mais importante: sem
vergonha de dizer eu te amo durante o expediente. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Mas com vergonha de levar
gaita na cueca, com hora de ninar os filhos, com mais <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sextas de Carnaval</b>, com celulares que toquem valsa, com mais sonhos
e pés de valsa, com poesia nos muros (se eles insistirem em existir), com
sujeito e predicado vivendo em concordância, com fumantes viciados em cachimbos
da paz, com cerveja amanteigada nos botecos, com juras (de amor), com toda a
horta em promoção, com novelas que valem a pena ver de novo, com filmes franceses
nas periferias, com riso frouxo mesmo depois de um tropeção, com uma horinha a
mais de sono, com o Messi no meu time, com policiais sem pimenta, com jornais
bem-humorados.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">E não nos esqueçamos, Vossa
Magnificência, que isto é fundamental: com violinos ao fundo sempre que
disserem eu te amo durante o expediente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Sem mais por ora, me despeço
aqui, ó Pai de Todos, Fura-Bolo e Mata-Piolho, desejando-Lhe uma Páscoa trufada
de boas intenções e chocolates (sem glúten, lactose e açúcar, cem por cento
cacau; que nem divindade da Sua catiguria pode brincar com o colesterol, o
Tinhoso disfarçado de gordurinha). Tchau e bença.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 2.35pt; margin: 2.35pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129;">* Texto
publicado em 2014 no Pasmatório (</span><a href="https://pasmatorio.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR1X2L8WHxBZj3GEjBEmosy1sZB4h-ventaRxi5NCDwT0JlFKSRF4HHGfZw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #365899; text-decoration: none;">http://pasmatorio.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129;">). De lá para cá, permaneceu super atual. (Sem mais comentário...)</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With all due respect, dear Chief:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perhaps you dear Lord could take advantage of
this Easter Sunday, families gathered round the hearth, the sunny weather of rebirth and change, to press that button (the reset one, make no mistake!) and
restart the whole system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Kind of </span> like what Your Excellence did when you sent out the diluvium.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Only this time, Boss, let's try a go without that bigot, Noah, without that ecologically incorrect ark and that crap
of saving only the hetero couples of each species.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn´t go over very well. It adds no
value to Paradise. A <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>suggestion: leave
us just three amoebas, to see if from the ménage we get something better than
that Homo bolsonaris gentilis, that creature that they say - but I don´t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>believe them - was made in your image and
semblance. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Don't get me wrong, your
Eminence: if I ask for a slow-motion replay of the greatest flood of all times
- and a shower of asteroids together, to take no chances - it is because we are
in dire <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>need of a reboot. Who knows, with a blank page once again , we—and
I include you, dear Lord, in this—can do a better job at the writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 2.35pt; margin: 2.35pt 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Without the crooked lines. </span></span></i></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 2.35pt; margin: 2.35pt 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A world without gluten, without a
time to get up, without Mondays, without cell phones ringing at the movies,
without self help books or corny phrases attributed to Clarice or Machado,
without accent marks and commas where they shouldn't be, without smokers or
drunkards, without interest, without overpriced tomatoes, without bad novels,
dubbed movies, bad livers and headaches, dumb comedians, fascists, long
lines, overtime; without wars and corny songs purportedly promoting peace, without myopic
flags, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>without a military unless
demilitarized, without sensationalistic headlines, plastic butts, plastic tits,
plastic brains, plastic hearts—with no plastic, at all.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ah and most importantly: to be able to say I
love you, shamelessly, during the work shift. But with shame enough to carry cash in our underwear, to have time to put our kids to bed, to have more Carnival
Fridays, and cell phones that play waltzes, and more dreams and waltzing feet,
and more poetry on the walls (if they don't all crumble), with subjects and
predicates in agreement, more smokers hooked on peace pipes and buttery beer at
the corner-bars, with oaths (of love) and special offers on all the vegetable
gardens, good novels to read and French films showing on the outskirts of town,
to always know how to laugh even after screwing up, and get in an
extra hour of sleep, have Messi on our team, police officers without pepper spray and
newspapers with a hip sense of humor.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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background every time one says I love you during the work shift.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 2.35pt; margin: 2.35pt 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></i></div>
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my leave here, oh dear Father of Us All, Milk Spiller and Lice Killer, wishing You
an Easter layered with good intentions and chocolates (no gluten, lactose or
sugar and 100% pure chocolate; as no one of Your stature can play around with cholesterol,
you little snea<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>k)</span></i></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 2.35pt; margin: 2.35pt 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 2.35pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 2.35pt; margin: 2.35pt 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bye for now, and god bless...</span></i></div>
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Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-73706390877140795192022-09-23T04:20:00.013-07:002022-12-04T15:19:19.306-08:00Maria das Nuvens. <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUdjux44EKYYpTVq6jw538Vs4E91YM5mswYQX301sJ_TqUxqStJ3V1gPUws46zs91T3mZw02kTCGQccGCHyRA8C2lhn4-4Sh011yUeFB4cudWJVGj3RT0EsfZ3POvULYffCpGWM7lVM77XH1osqRkWmCtOexeSFcLXSw40cwNziwdtFF_FNXxi1vTIw/s719/FB_IMG_1663944110498.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="719" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUdjux44EKYYpTVq6jw538Vs4E91YM5mswYQX301sJ_TqUxqStJ3V1gPUws46zs91T3mZw02kTCGQccGCHyRA8C2lhn4-4Sh011yUeFB4cudWJVGj3RT0EsfZ3POvULYffCpGWM7lVM77XH1osqRkWmCtOexeSFcLXSw40cwNziwdtFF_FNXxi1vTIw/s320/FB_IMG_1663944110498.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Many years ago, while I was living in NYC , I chanced upon a hard-covered copy of
an English translation of Maria Nephele, by Greek poet Odysseus Elytis, in a Barnes
& Noble sales basket. I grabbed it up, took it home and, finding it both enigmatic
and intriguing, swore to someday do an “update”, reshaping the 'antiphonist' as another <i> female</i>
interlocutor, of a different generation. I finally got started on it several years ago, all the while uneasy about what seemed to me a very bold venture. I spent hours, days poring over
whatever lit crit I could find on Elytis and on Maria Nephele, yet his poem, which still enthralls me, seems only partly decipherable. Writing my own "Maria das Nuvens" has reaffirmed my feeling that I understand its
spirit, although many nuances lie in a
cultural and historical terrain in which I am a mere novice. Since I am not at all convinced that I will find a venue to publish it - my few initial attempts have failed - I have decided to make it available here, through a link posted below, at the end of this excerpt. As usual, it remains a 'work-in-progress'. And as usual, I welcome comments and suggestions. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">maria das nuvens<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In my dream, yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a great sleep which will come sometime,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">full of light and warmth and little stone stairsteps.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Embracing, the children will pass in the streets just
as in old<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Italian movies. From everywhere you’ll hear songs and see<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">huge women on small balconies watering their flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Who listened?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who ever listened? </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Judges,
priests,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">gendarmes, which is your country? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Elytis,
Maria Nephele<i>. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Maria
das Nuvens<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">i saw it with my own eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the red antelopes came bounding <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">out into the streets, then stopped. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">children slipped out of the paint-cracked building,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">took hiding behind an old station wagon,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">dark eyes opened in awe. they had learned<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">to be silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i
found a scrap of paper,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">wrote everything down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Antiphonist <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">when
we first met i warned you <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">of
the perils of the world, of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">what
it was like to come <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">back
from the fields strewn with stubs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">of
trees and limbs. how the wind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">pummelled
the coastal night after<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the
last burst of light tapered into<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">a
strange starless blackness.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">you
stand there, in your<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">futile
efforts to look the facts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in
the brutal pupil of their eyes, you, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">a
stubborn girl, wedded to the need<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">to
search for beauty even<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">where
so little may be left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">animals
move by a scent on the wind, while <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">life
and death hover, human constructs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">we ignore what we choose to: what<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">nobody knows, everyone knows.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Maria das Nuvens <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">i was compelled to keep
searching.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">there was a spot on the beach where<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">two strangers pressed lips to lips. we <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">too indulged in gentle danger. far now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">from the village but still a sense of doom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">stuck to us, like tatters clinging to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>war- hardened bodies. broken
shells<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">gouged the soles of my bare feet. the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">seagulls around me were tame, came<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">begging.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Antiphonist <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">days step in slowly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">one after another<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">as if offering a bit more time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">to chart some new course,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">as humanity bobs up and down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in the waters it has sullied -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the rubble, the entrails, the pieces <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">of plastic and fragments of metal,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and the wounded creatures of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the sea...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><b>(if you'd like to read the rest, kindly follow this link:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s4efLgtrzH3pWEngssqQ4UZfCOAaq7bN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116745013077065511932&rtpof=true&sd=true</p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p></p></div>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-13019597794436036062022-08-30T18:22:00.011-07:002022-08-31T16:58:32.633-07:00Ya no soy un caballo/ Now that I am no longer a horse<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevgzYEVlHsZlRGKYp65_Mc-DoCjNBJHvlmdweU0ZQyrR5-qJGBu8-6mR_I9srqxfoHk_Fx_IsPKSBf-TQ1r0brVdAEobuvGY-dwuS86vmQklBOPucce0CHUTyPmQhFuE1euFaU7pXAwvjlwgv6osE0Mi6GDOiT0blS-jPBRpc2KEuFRl6ebqOp0ldIQ/s320/apollo%20com%20vinheta-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="287" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevgzYEVlHsZlRGKYp65_Mc-DoCjNBJHvlmdweU0ZQyrR5-qJGBu8-6mR_I9srqxfoHk_Fx_IsPKSBf-TQ1r0brVdAEobuvGY-dwuS86vmQklBOPucce0CHUTyPmQhFuE1euFaU7pXAwvjlwgv6osE0Mi6GDOiT0blS-jPBRpc2KEuFRl6ebqOp0ldIQ/s1600/apollo%20com%20vinheta-1.jpg" width="287" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><br />
<b>Ya no soy un caballo/ Now that I am no longer a horse<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><br />
Germaine Calderón </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">English translation:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Miriam Adelman</span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">There
are signs<br />
duels of despair<br />
hobos who wander<br />
and grow with the night<br />
with the aromas of the world,<br />
boys like birds<br />
in their shyness<br />
<br />
The mountains, blue clad sailors<br />
and we in our silence<br />
seeking some flatland<br />
some little town that is more<br />
than this one that<br />
limps on its three legs,<br />
a shadow the size of water<br />
and wine, incessant<br />
at the hour of memory<br />
when we collapse on the hillsides<br />
where there is laughter<br />
like a strange grimace<br />
in the face of our obscene<br />
exposure.<br />
<br />
Today I have turned<br />
My dreams inside out like a glove,<br />
I have hung myself out to dry<br />
my heart puzzled<br />
by its own seams<br />
its own flanks<br />
its imminent size<br />
and I am puzzled<br />
to find myself looking<br />
so much<br />
like a human.<br />
<br />
I always thought I was a horse<br />
people called me by my name<br />
and I came<br />
by gentle instinct<br />
<br />
I loved the damp bark</span><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">the
grains as tender as a gift<br />
and I believed<br />
in simple muscles<br />
in the swiftness of air<br />
in the impatient, runaway<br />
phrase<br />
<br />
In those days<br />
trees were like<br />
warriors<br />
and greenness shot up<br />
from the roots<br />
and roots were fixed<br />
nowhere<br />
<br />
On those long rambles<br />
days made their debut<br />
and there was no other language<br />
for living<br />
except in a way that was harsh<br />
almost brutal<br />
from the start<br />
<br />
I knew that to be<br />
was to give in -<br />
to discipline<br />
not to hunger<br />
that these were the days of tales<br />
of charmers and their flutes<br />
</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">Fire was the measure<br />
to be well meant becoming<br />
suddenly<br />
from mane to nerves<br />
a rebel<br />
but always with the wide<br />
rounded eyes of the docile<br />
<br />
Today however<br />
I discover myself<br />
so much like all others <br />
so bounded in ideas<br />
in labor<br />
and just watching <br />
simply watching.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Hay signos<br />
desesperanzas en duelo<br />
algunos vagabundos<br />
en crecimiento con la noche<br />
con el olor del mundo<br />
muchachos<br />
como pájaros tímidos</span></i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Los montes marineros azules<br />
nosotros silenciosos<br />
buscando algún rellano<br />
un pueblo más que este<br />
insignificante en tres patas<br />
una sombra del tamaño del agua<br />
y un vino incesante<br />
a la hora de la memoria<br />
para caer tumbados en las lindes<br />
donde se rie<br />
com una extraña mueca<br />
por nuestra desnudez obcena<br />
<br />
Hoy he volteado<br />
mi sueño como un guante<br />
yo mismo<br />
me he puesto a secar por el reverso<br />
y el corazón se extraña<br />
de su doblez<br />
de su flanco<br />
de su tamaño inminente<br />
y yo me extraño<br />
de ser tan parecido<br />
a un hombre</span></i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Siempre pensé que era un
caballo<br />
las gentes me llamaban por mi nombre<br />
y yo acudia<br />
con un instinto manso<br />
<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br />
<!--[endif]--></span></i> </span><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Amaba la corteza llovida</span></span></i></div><div><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">el grano tierno como dádiva</span></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>y creia </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>en los músculos simples</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>en la rapidez del aire</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>en la oración impaciente</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>desbocada</i></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<br />
Entonces<br />
los árboles<br />
semejaban guerreros<br />
lo verde venia de las raíces<br />
y las raíces no tenian<br />
un lugar fijo</span></i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">En esas largas caminatas<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">se estrenaban los dias<br />
y no habia outro lenguaje que vivir<br />
de uma manera recia<br />
desde el origen<br />
casi brutalmente</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<br />
Sabia que estar<br />
era doblegarse<br />
por disciplina<br />
no por hambre<br />
que era el tiempo de los mitos<br />
de los encantadores<br />
con sus flautass<br />
<br />
La medida era el fuego<br />
el bienestar residia<br />
en ser<br />
de pronto<br />
de la crin a los nervios<br />
rebelde<br />
y sin embargo,<br />
el ojo siempre<br />
agrandado<br />
por la mansedumbre<br />
<br />
Pero hoy me descubro<br />
tan igualmente a todos<br />
limitado en ideas<br />
en trabajo<br />
y tan sólo<br />
y tan sólo mirando</span></i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span> </span></div>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-65126447797555347942022-08-29T09:54:00.004-07:002022-09-23T07:25:21.799-07:00Mekong<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> <i>for Marguerite Duras</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the dry season of the Mekong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is up to us to carry the buckets, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Douse the cabin with water, make our<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Own river to sluice away dust and
scorpions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We stack the chairs. Build a bridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With the tables. Bathe the floors in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yellow-foaming soap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is time to rejoice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Our mother tells us. We can dance
barefoot, sing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And she will play her piano again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The only tune she knows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The only one we’ll keep <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-21726188430976206872022-07-09T06:11:00.009-07:002022-08-06T06:31:54.667-07:00Visitation<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">What
I love most about my favorite poems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Is
the way they are always calling me <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Back, breezing in through another window or even<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A
crevice never before noticed, or a new crack<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
the wall where just enough light sashays in,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And
I can see it flickering in a darkened room,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A
new dance, a sideward surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most
faithful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Of
friends, these poems, like the only ones who<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Never
commit you to oblivion, even if they occasionally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Forget
your birthday or lose you amidst the crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And
each is perfect for a precise movement of mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Or
limb or loss:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you can call out their
names –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pablo,
Sandra, Sylvia,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fernando, Margaret…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">From
an ember or a bookshelf they return<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To
cradle you in their words, or push you out again,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Into
the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-40351431966719564892022-05-03T05:56:00.007-07:002022-07-06T14:35:15.841-07:00Philosophers and wolves (prosimetrum in progress!). <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmrq1tqlAGCJwNvVAzG1bWMcgga8rYxKf4PhhYlJkLxdkGLjCE4gJcItEtDwXeNYmyLgTLP7BSMhf19WYweRjGhwD90b_hZvM91dRG3oWaMqPgeo028Pstm_zUKzW2Wus6ToRWMbmY22kgfuS_QC2yBKxzmADREeZyvUk9bF58ShKzEf_NTz985KJlA/s1280/Philosphers%20and%20Wolves.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmrq1tqlAGCJwNvVAzG1bWMcgga8rYxKf4PhhYlJkLxdkGLjCE4gJcItEtDwXeNYmyLgTLP7BSMhf19WYweRjGhwD90b_hZvM91dRG3oWaMqPgeo028Pstm_zUKzW2Wus6ToRWMbmY22kgfuS_QC2yBKxzmADREeZyvUk9bF58ShKzEf_NTz985KJlA/w402-h226/Philosphers%20and%20Wolves.jpg" width="402" /></a></div> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n4it5CAOAJ6H-PgLO3VUajUjLQqhVayh/view?usp=sharing<br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div>Just starting to practice with new forms and formats. Hope you like it!</div>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-72880415040916458432022-04-12T08:46:00.009-07:002022-09-17T18:26:27.934-07:00Aviator Barbie (work in progress!)<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>When Erica Jong wrote <i>Fear of Flying,</i> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>Grandmother Barbie, then only 14,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>took the title literally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grandma was<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>already a
toughie, and determined <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>not to end up like all those fifties housewives<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>at least not the ones in commercials who never
climbed<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>out
of their aprons,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>who ran off shrieking when little grey mice popped
up<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the
kitchen at midnight<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 30pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;">suddenly forgetting how to pick
up a broom<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>or who toted the boys from game to game<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>never dreamt of learning to pitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When this Barbie<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>assured her best friend Ken she was ready to meet<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>whatever the challenge, his elder brother – he’d flown<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>fighter planes over Mekong Delta, crawled home<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>to live out his days on the streets of Oakland -<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>said that girls who wanted to fly could serve
coffee or tea <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>on TWA or Panam, land an executive hubby<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>or at least a half-decent pension plan,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>Grandma got so </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: small;">pissed that</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: small;"> she stomped off</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: small;"> swearing she’d show those
old boys</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- and the
new ones too -<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>never to underestimate a girl who was born<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 1959.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not made of plastic, she’d<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>step down off the shelves after store hours,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>always waiting
to first hear the clatter <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when the
last employee pulled down the folding gate, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>and switched off the lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steady with a flashlight, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>she’d sit </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>till morning, studying flight manuals and</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: small;">the history </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: small;">of aviation, obsessing </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: small; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">over lives like Amelia’s and Bessie’s</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>or the novel she was currently reading. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>It was about Marx’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: small;">bastard daughter</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: small;">who becomes a pilot, vanishing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>into the fogs of a world that reneged on any<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>real revolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were other stories too<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>and legends like one about a Mexican lady <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>who escaped the dungeon by flying<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>out the
window of her cell. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But my grandma<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barbie,
being no sorceress, concluded<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>she’d have to fight the system with <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; line-height: 107%;">its own tools. </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she realized
she’d<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>better
not wait for the southern states to ok<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>the
ERA, she decided once again<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>to
take matters into her own hands. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>She’d pull
on her overalls, sneak<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>out
onto the airfields<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>while the
others were still stone drunk<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or snoring, flying her planes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>to
some off-the-map island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>no h-bombs in hiding, nor tourists <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>tucked
happily away in the brilliant steel belly<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of her dream machine, as she headed out<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into the deep of a night <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>where
no Club Med and no World War III<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span>could
ever be possible.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-88173091500642457702022-03-21T09:10:00.015-07:002022-04-18T05:42:02.025-07:00Another mother's son (work in progress)<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">(The anti-war theme comes back to me again and again, as I watch films, read novels or follow the news. Yes, human beings have a hard time learning from the past, and the powers that be are blinded by an insane logic that they are not willing to break with. So here we go, again.</span>..)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">i.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">Privilege of the women and children, to carve their
way to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">the border, through snowbanks or alongside the cars
stopped out<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">along the freezing highways. They trudge on, too tired
and hungry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">to let the memory of home blaze a hole through their
hearts. Some <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">have left behind husbands, fathers, or sons of sixteen
still<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">meant to be carrying schoolbooks, sneaking first
kisses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">behind broken-down sheds, or under the yielding windows of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">abandoned warehouses.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">In the springtime, tearful mothers <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">will be gathering flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">ii.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The walls have
come down, so we see right straight through,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">to hallways,
to stairwells, to busted wiring,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> the apocalyptic version of an architect’s
model: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">inner
workings, the plan, guts to reveal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Before our
very eyes, an interrupted logic – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> that which was once the tender or lively nest where<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">a family
gathered, where neighbors broke bread, where<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">one spouse was
tired and the other, wanting, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> where </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">siblings bickered over whose turn it was</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> to do the dishes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now, a
reporter carves her way through the rubble: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">this here was
a bicycle, that, a dashboard,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and there, in a pile, lies a broken camera, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">a
bullet-riddled backpack<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;">one half of a
helmet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">In the springtime, tearful sisters <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">will be gathering flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">iii.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">a couple heads out onto
the road. they head for the border<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">with no baggage but a
little mutt with the name of <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 16px;">a girlchild</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> bundled into a
shawl, curled </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> into the arms of the young man, almost</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">a boy. his
girlfriend tells us: the soldiers came knocking three times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">each time they told us, you
keep your mouths shut, don’t tell we were here,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">pointing their guns to
her temples, pushing him to the ground, mortifying<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the elders, making off
with the last loaf of bread. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">In the springtime, tearful brothers <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">will be gathering flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">iv.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">sometimes bad news
travels quickly. but it can – also - not
come, or drag along<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">on its own wretched time,
crawling on its belly like a wounded puppy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">or lost at sea like a
message in a bottle. airwaves
interrupted. telegraph down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">in tenuous silence. you
might also open the wrong letter, or take the wrong phone call. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">or </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">stubbornly insist that
void is nothing more than a sputtering battery.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">a heart gone missing can
sometimes return.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">in the springtime, tearful mothers will be gathering flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><span class="nounderlines" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 1px;">© 2022</span></span><i>miriam adelman</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga6QEBfDV83cBGFfvgAA1oB0owuwDKyZ7gBF76QbAeEBoxigC2kuW8tadz-lx3sk8hG4ide9bwwq6zmVakKxbK0lSc6AoPgBCdi0PqqEfLzexSgcfSeeUK3OMBSSpLMV0rbzrJ0pzv0LamgmFSFPAf7dLKlSCVa_2xN4nJknkxVmglmchBkYa6eup9bA=s6016" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="6016" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga6QEBfDV83cBGFfvgAA1oB0owuwDKyZ7gBF76QbAeEBoxigC2kuW8tadz-lx3sk8hG4ide9bwwq6zmVakKxbK0lSc6AoPgBCdi0PqqEfLzexSgcfSeeUK3OMBSSpLMV0rbzrJ0pzv0LamgmFSFPAf7dLKlSCVa_2xN4nJknkxVmglmchBkYa6eup9bA=w409-h274" width="409" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-81271080867938696042022-03-18T10:07:00.014-07:002023-07-30T10:01:32.620-07:00Horse Fever Barbie<p> <i> for Ruth Handler</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QZE0Qqn7YNhbcE5pkP3HdawYvIAqDWwNXDqcNnqQVw8riXF1PwdWn5zApkbCChwNP44lzFNpQ9XHMacLE1jB9RorUcxHugjfVCzYhqi-4k_uPeHEb6RQcPuMeiT87OoA-KeDkbgJ_Fmp4j2j5IPBcPPcJVoZnW_YW7V6aqOlgpe-3RN0khdyXy9-VQ/s1280/IMG-20220806-WA0018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QZE0Qqn7YNhbcE5pkP3HdawYvIAqDWwNXDqcNnqQVw8riXF1PwdWn5zApkbCChwNP44lzFNpQ9XHMacLE1jB9RorUcxHugjfVCzYhqi-4k_uPeHEb6RQcPuMeiT87OoA-KeDkbgJ_Fmp4j2j5IPBcPPcJVoZnW_YW7V6aqOlgpe-3RN0khdyXy9-VQ/w373-h279/IMG-20220806-WA0018.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Though born into 50s Amerika<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Barbie never really liked fashion dolls.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">She preferred her Friend Flicka or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the Breyer herd, their dappled
hindquarters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and molded manes, her debt to plastic coming<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">in Paint and Appaloosa, and something <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">she could buy with her petty cash <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">from babysitting. The neighborhood kids <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">rarely threw tantrums. They ate her popcorn by</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the handful and listened to her stories, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> though she </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">sometimes had a hard time</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> making
the human characters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> believable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">When her mom tried to drag her to Gimbel’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">for shopping, this Barbie went bananas, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">recalcitrance born of odd preference for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">trotting the paths of the park with her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">sheepdog.
She was willing to give up the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">department store luncheon, opting instead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">for the corner drugstore, the lime cokes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> and
catchup-doused fries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> served by savvy waitresses who<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> were already into tattoos and bad
attitudes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">For years she forewent the cute dresses
and pumps, or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> the
hippie frocks, or the fish-net stockings and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">psychedelic miniskirts she was kind of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
starting to like.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Although not trying to make a statement, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">she despised wasting time on the picky
details,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">or worrying about nails on a trip to the
barn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">where real horses nibbled on her hair,
warmed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">her shoulders with their breath, pressed
velvety <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">muzzles against her cheeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">When Barbie started to grow real boobs her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">friend Steffi’s dad said <i>beware of riding</i>. You could<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">pop your cherry on an old mare and then no
real Stallone would ever<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">give you more than a temporary canter. And
there was the doctor who<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">thought himself privy to her secrets, prying
for details <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">on equitation and its
orgasms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Poem & image: Miriam Adelman.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0bbulBZfnsTbc2Z8bo8u1BH84JfNszaHTyWDCTpvzpEyksG-2BQNNY8Puz9_cCDHWanmBNUosAVsSklcqS8Koub4aJTGrfeGsVMXTJyDIHjH-zTK0nqSE3DKBxTU4a--hXB9r7SdslxOx3di5Lf-ZGrxrYrpJAIjn306bz9-TBdhaypzBHY--NXzALw=s4060" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2710" data-original-width="4060" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0bbulBZfnsTbc2Z8bo8u1BH84JfNszaHTyWDCTpvzpEyksG-2BQNNY8Puz9_cCDHWanmBNUosAVsSklcqS8Koub4aJTGrfeGsVMXTJyDIHjH-zTK0nqSE3DKBxTU4a--hXB9r7SdslxOx3di5Lf-ZGrxrYrpJAIjn306bz9-TBdhaypzBHY--NXzALw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845916299883638885.post-42559969846335657572022-03-17T11:47:00.010-07:002022-04-18T05:51:39.133-07:00Barbie on the Creation of Ken/ Barbie Fala sobre a Criação do Ken<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh75v5kmpp5aoUqiAYdBwyTnQKlpECm6RZY2qvnG5Pa8NGESgJb3fAegCA5kzmf_R59zCxNbqmGlixjkAq03H1g96w_DYnTri0yMx3i1LS571zJo6etZJFzZyrztjkloAaO3LSaoBu6dcaPHsaN102WrE94HLviElhwDVKFrfywTa6_eV4gH_SHgK0vlA=s891" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="891" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh75v5kmpp5aoUqiAYdBwyTnQKlpECm6RZY2qvnG5Pa8NGESgJb3fAegCA5kzmf_R59zCxNbqmGlixjkAq03H1g96w_DYnTri0yMx3i1LS571zJo6etZJFzZyrztjkloAaO3LSaoBu6dcaPHsaN102WrE94HLviElhwDVKFrfywTa6_eV4gH_SHgK0vlA=w419-h280" width="419" /></a></span></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"> Poem by STEPHEN ZERANCE.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Back from the war in my revenge</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">dress, I’ve come to kill love. Alexa—</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">bring me the axe. I’ll carve the idealized
man</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">out of living stone: chemically happy,
dumb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">as hair. A man in motion</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">is most important. To the femur—</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">make it long so he’ll walk right</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">out my life. Give the arms strength</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">to beat me black & blue. I’ll make a
fast</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">machine so I don’t have to compete with
anyone</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">but myself. There should be no voice box—</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">the inner world only teeth shattering
dreams.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">I’ll fasten eyes to get lost in,</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">to crawl inside. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
pull of his lower nerve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">will stop time. It is here</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">the true site of human bloom.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Alexa—turn on the gas.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Alexa—strike the match. Behold:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">the temple in man. I walk home</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">through his hypostyle halls. I touch his
skin.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">I see wonderful things.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">I see the end of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">De volta da guerra
nos meus vestes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">de vingança,
venho para matar o amor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alexa -<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">me traga o
machado. Vou esculpir de pedra viva<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">o homem idealizado:
quimicamente feliz, estúpido <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">como
cabelo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Um homem em movimento<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">isso é o mais importante.
O fêmur – <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">faça-o muito
longo para que vá embora<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">da minha
vida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dê aos braços a força<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">para me espancar
até ficar toda roxa. Farei uma máquina</span></i><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">veloz para não ter
que competir com ninguém<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">além de mim
mesma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Não deverá haver caixa de voz –<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">o mundo interior é
apenas sonhos que estilhaçam os dentes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Vou lhe colocar
olhos para perder-</span></i><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">se, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">para arrastar-se dentro. O puxão do seu nervo inferior<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">fará o tempo
parar. Eis aqui <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">o verdadeiro lugar
do desabrochar humano.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Alexa – ligue o gás.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alexa - </span>incenda<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> o
fósforo. </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contemple:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">o templo no homem.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Volto para casa<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">através de seus corredores
hipostilos. Toco na sua pele.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Vejo <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>coisas incríveis.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Vejo o fim do
mundo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Versão: Miriam Adelman<span style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>Miriam Adelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03921724676523408743noreply@blogger.com0