Casida de las palomas oscuras [Click to listen] A Claudio Guillén Por las ramas del laurel van dos palomas oscuras. La una era el sol, la otra la luna. “Vecinitas”, les dije, “¿dónde está mi sepultura?” “En mi cola”, dijo el sol. “En mi garganta”, dijo la luna. Y yo que estaba caminando con la … More En la voz de Rafael Alberti
The soundtrack on this video is by the amazing flamenco singer Estrella Morente, and you really should listen to it. My cat was or is, no sabemos, Federico, after FGL and specifically, Libro de poemas. We will be reading most of this book on this blog in the coming weeks. Axé.
–Compadre, quiero cambiar mi caballo por su casa, mi montura por su espejo, mi cuchillo por su manta. Compadre, vengo sangrando, desde los puertos de Cabra. –Si yo pudiera, mocito, este trato se cerraba. Pero yo ya no soy yo, ni mi casa es ya mi casa. –Compadre, quiero morir decentemente en mi cama. De … More Sombra de mi bien esquivo
Las arañas iban por los laureles. La casualidad se va tornando en nieve, y los años dormidos ya se atreven a clavar los telares del siempre. La Quietud hecha esfinge se ríe de la Muerte que canta melancólica en un grupo de lejanos cipreses. La yedra de las gotas tapiza las paredes empapadas de arcaicos … More Patio húmedo
It is hard to find a Vallejo video that is not sentimental, or eerie, or both. People really seem to think he was those things, and he does come from an eerie town. And he is associated with pain, and desgarre might as well be his middle name. I really wonder about all of this, … More A mi hermano Miguel
The H.D. Book is at its core a polemic–elevating the female and the nonconformist and the heterodox against the institutions of men. One of these institutions was literature. Axé.
1910, from Fr. sabotage, from saboter “to sabotage, bungle,” lit. “walk noisily,” from sabot “wooden shoe” (13c.), altered (by association with O. Fr. bot “boot”) from M. Fr. savate “old shoe,” from an unidentified source that also produced similar words in O. Prov., Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Basque. In French, the sense of “deliberately … More sabotage (n.)
There is actual broccoli growing on my broccoli plants, and I am very impressed. I also appear to have taken two days off. I took most of two days off last weekend, too, but it was for travel and excitement. These two days I: • slept until 10 AM • worked three hours in the … More On Bicycles
“Soleil de la conscience” des mutations de notre monde…. Qui sait qu’un homme d’une importance considérable pour ses semblables est mort jeudi matin à Paris? Axé.
Mardi Gras morning won’t be long! Axé.
