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Its Truths Scrambled

August 27th, 2010 Elisabet Alhambra No comments

Feliz cumpleaños a mi!

I am not 32 but Neruda wrote 100 sonnets for his beloved Matilde and named this one XXXII.  Do you have someone in your life that creates your order, that is your shimmering bee. I must love disorder if my desk looks like this! … pero mi encanta those with the gift to take a twig, place it on a piece of accordian-folded, origami-esque paper and effortlessly create art.
Wine that prefers to continue yesterday. Que quiere decir eso?

Besos,
Elisabet

XXXII
Pablo Neruda
 
The house this morning — with its truths
scrambled, blankets and feathers, the start of the day
already in flux — drifts like a poor little boat
between its horizon of order and of sleep.
 
Objects want only to drag themselves along:
vestiges, entropic followers, cold legaices.
Papers hide their shriveled vowels;
the wine in the bottle prefers to continue yesterday.
 
But you — The One Who Puts Things in Order — you shimmer
through like a bee, probing spaces lost to the darkness:
conquering light, you with your white energy.
 
So you contruct a new clarity here,
and objects obey, following the wind of life:
an Order establishes its bread, its dove.
(y el orden establece su pan y su paloma.)

Chardonnay and Triscuits

August 18th, 2010 Elisabet Alhambra No comments

Mr. Dickenson writes to Paul…

Chardonnay and Triscuits

By John Dickinson

You once mentioned that your first date with your wife was (I think) camping along the Tuolumne river. We should probably pass on to the next generation of romantic hopefuls what an effective strategy this is.

Susan and my first date (22 years ago ) included BBQ Chicken, Smoked Oysters, Alouette Garlic spread and Triscuits, and a bottle of Chardonnay – sitting on a rock in the middle of the Merced river just below Bridalveil falls in Yosemite.

A full moon rose over half-dome ( she thinks I planned it that way, but it was just blind luck ) and we later walked over to Yosemite falls in the moonlight and got soaked in the mist. She decided it was THE most romantic date she had ever been on and that I was a keeper.

The fact that we later went back to separate tents to sleep, and that I got up to make sour-dough english muffins (from my own sourdough starter) and cowboy coffee in the very chilly morning cinched the deal.

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Lip Face Soliloquy of All Things Wonderful

August 12th, 2010 Elisabet Alhambra No comments

By J. Kirk Feiereisen    www.yoelrey.com

we were falling in love and
we liked it
bottoms of feet stained
purple
floor splatters mingled into one
beneath toes and
heals and
arches
we began to kiss again no
pulling away for breath
she leaned in and
I was done
a slow sweet pull from all
time amalgamed into
three hour lip face soliloquy of
all things wonderful and
human and
alive in
moment