Posted in Poetry, Translations, Writers on September 27, 2006 | No Comments »
The Death of Antoñito el Camborio
By Federico García Lorca (El Muerte de Antoñito el Camborio)
Trans. Curt Hopkins
Voices of death resounded
Around the Guadalquivir.
Ancient voices surrounding
The voice of the virile carnation.
The bites of a boar
Bit through his boots.
In the struggle he leapt
As slick as a dolphin.
He bathed in his enemies’ blood,
His tie crimsoned,
But there were four daggers
And [...]
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Posted in Kitties on September 27, 2006 | No Comments »
cat, moblogging, calico
Curt Hopkins
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Curt Hopkins
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Curt Hopkins
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Posted in Outdoors on September 27, 2006 | No Comments »
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Curt Hopkins
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Posted in Iran, Threatened bloggers on September 19, 2006 | No Comments »
According to RSF:
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the early release of blogger Mojtaba Saminejad, who was serving a combined sentence of two years and 10 months in prison. He was formally freed on 12 September but had in fact been on home leave since June. Arrested in February 2005, he spent nearly 18 months in [...]
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Posted in Poetry on September 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Into silence goes the actor, out
To light and silence, where he sings,
To hide in light and in the silence shout,
For total quiet is a noisy thing.
Like fleece that combs a stream for gold,
The moment gathers particles of you,
Captures in its multitude of folds
The sweet potential action puts an end to.
But act you do, and in [...]
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Posted in Jacksonville, Oregon, Poetry on September 16, 2006 | No Comments »
Jacksonville Cemetery.
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The next several weeks passed slowly
in lonely walks or quiet visits to
the men he’d come to care so deeply for.
Kinney, Miller, Sachs, and Washington,
the Doctor and Helms and Thurmond and their wives.
People stopped to give condolences, Father
Blanchet, Mr. Barnum, Billy. Father
Blanchet blessed the barn with his [...]
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Posted in Jacksonville, Oregon, Poetry on September 16, 2006 | No Comments »
Jackson Creek.
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The tunnel closed around him, an arch of brush
that locked the sky out except those gaps the moon
got in through, the broken light skirling over
the water’s shifting, leaping surface. He followed
that erratic scribble up the creek
within the hairy vein whose shape lent direction
to his suddenly fractured [...]
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Posted in Jacksonville, Oregon, Poetry on September 16, 2006 | No Comments »
Miller’s Grocery.
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“I’ll tell you something Nicholas-no matter what the size
a place is, it’s full of fear and joy and drama.
Look around you! This dying town,
half in boards, is as full of stories as Shanghai,
yes, or Alexandria.”
They walked together, Nick
and Thurmond, up California buying groceries
and supplies, both [...]
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