L'aura del Campo

Try closing your eyes. "Poem: Strange birds"

L'aura del campo

EARLY WINTER?: 2 Sharaf (1 January) 37º and clear.

'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos'
♣ Federico García Lorca ♣

Beautiful sunny day and reasonably mild. The dusting of snow we got yesterday is all gone.

I'm at La Prima Tazza trying to write out this entry and do some reading. I'm not accomplishing much.

Monday and there still are very few people in Blogville writing and/or reading. Folks are busy, of course. chalaedra is back, so go visit!

Me? Not that energetic. I am hoping I'm not catching bronchitis again. Not sleeping well so I'm almost always tired. At the moment uncomfortably warm, hopefully not feverish.

Strange birds

A strange flock of birds gather
in the lee of wind, like grey rags huddled
under last autumn's leaves; they accept
the fate of the falling snow.
They come and go,
yet every day the chant is heard
in their begging words, the clink
of bottles passed mouth to mouth,
the embers of cigarettes warming fingers;
they can't feel their toes.
Who knows who will meet the fowler's fate
this cold December, who will be found
come March's melt of snow. [163.534H]

Some more of those 41 untitled musings:

A long sour life or the sweetness of your flower?
The bee chooses today; the brain tomorrow. [531g]

When the moon has set,
Will these words glow bright enough to read? [532a]

O Souls! Like this world of flesh,
A home is but a temporary shelter. [532c]

In a land when nothing old is valued,
Will anything I write remain? [532d]

These plains wiped clean by winds -
A palimpsest for poets. [532e]

QUOTE

"If you close your eyes it gets dark. Try it."

Related by Carole Pilante. What her son said to her when he was 3 and she was being bothered by some light. I was telling Carole how I can't sleep with a light shining in my face.

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