tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10561954257062220562024-03-13T13:40:52.899-06:00BuNble BeePOEMS pommes porcupines panzazos POEMS promenades papillons pingos POEMSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-27506854773242602352012-04-22T20:47:00.003-05:002012-04-22T20:49:25.365-05:0013.<u>Why people love vampires</u><br />
Because it's distressing to wake up<br />
Every morning knowing that there are<br />
A thousand things that could kill you<br />
And that one day one of them<br />
Will.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-42915193788238457552012-04-12T23:25:00.002-05:002012-04-12T23:46:20.263-05:0011./12.Bottle blue tide pool<br />
Smoothed by wind and glazed with salt<br />
Shows the moon her face<br />
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Two drowsy tadpoles<br />
Speckled like sun through the reeds<br />
Dream of bright green legsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-54203920480656837122012-04-10T23:33:00.000-05:002012-04-10T23:33:16.515-05:0010.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>66</o:Words> <o:Characters>380</o:Characters> <o:Company>Bunbun</o:Company> <o:Lines>3</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>466</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.256</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Vernacular</u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><u><br />
</u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lozenge of Love! Medallion of Art!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">No, that kind of proclamation requires<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A dizzy quantity of nausea-inducing emotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yet one can understand why they hurl <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Themselves forward without any attempt <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">At tempering their own bravado.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Everyone at 17 is a rock star, a sylph,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Desirable to vampires, flawless and <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">New. It’s not because of the Internet or<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Cell phones, but you can’t speak their<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Language anymore. A vernacular that <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Assured can only be unlearned with age.<o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-81006809228099347502012-04-09T22:50:00.000-05:002012-04-09T22:50:28.851-05:009.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>87</o:Words> <o:Characters>496</o:Characters> <o:Company>Bunbun</o:Company> <o:Lines>4</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>609</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.256</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><u>Ghosts</u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Heads toward the wall,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Feet toward the street, </div><div class="MsoNormal">With a barrier of boxes</div><div class="MsoNormal">Full of badly painted clay</div><div class="MsoNormal">Mushrooms and model</div><div class="MsoNormal">Churches and pumpkins</div><div class="MsoNormal">With twisted vines. Now</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are ready to sleep.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Exhausted from a day</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of standing at traffic</div><div class="MsoNormal">Lights, we are not woken</div><div class="MsoNormal">By curious couples coming </div><div class="MsoNormal">Home from dinner, or </div><div class="MsoNormal">Garbage men shouting or</div><div class="MsoNormal">The last buses shouldering</div><div class="MsoNormal">Each other out of the way.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If we were, maybe we would</div><div class="MsoNormal">Find it odd that we command</div><div class="MsoNormal">More attention asleep than </div><div class="MsoNormal">Awake. That as shapeless,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Shadowless silhouettes</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are seen more clearly </div><div class="MsoNormal">Than when unmistakably </div><div class="MsoNormal">Highlighted by the blazing sun.</div><!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-45244011714372558522012-04-08T22:34:00.000-05:002012-04-08T22:34:08.236-05:008.<u>Luna menguante</u><br />
luna menguante:<br />
proa de crucero,<br />
uña de gigante,<br />
viruta de lapicero,<br />
<br />
oreja de genio,<br />
raja de melón,<br />
alfanje damasquino,<br />
pinza de escorpión.<br />
<br />
No rhyming in the English version, sorry:(<br />
<u>Crescent Moon</u><br />
crescent moon:<br />
ship's prow,<br />
giant's thumbnail,<br />
pencil shaving,<br />
<br />
genie's ear,<br />
canteloupe slice,<br />
Turkish scimitar<br />
scorpion's claw.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-28661420086259133342012-04-07T21:58:00.004-05:002012-04-07T23:36:46.712-05:007.<u>Carretera</u><br />
El paisaje al<br />
Lado de la<br />
Carretera<br />
Se parece<br />
A otro. No<br />
Sé si es<br />
Nostalgia o<br />
Añoro pero<br />
Los cactus se<br />
Convierten en<br />
Pinos, el olor<br />
A tierra seca<br />
Se vuelve el<br />
De las madreselvas<br />
Después de<br />
Una lluvia de<br />
Verano. Los años<br />
Se quitan como<br />
El caucho de<br />
Una llanta y hay<br />
Que preguntarse<br />
¿Cuántas facetas<br />
Tiene la vida<br />
De alguien?<br />
<br />
<u>Highway</u><br />
The scenery on<br />
Either side of<br />
This highway<br />
Resembles that of<br />
Another. I don't<br />
Know if it's<br />
Homesickness or<br />
Nostalgia but the<br />
Cacti turn into<br />
Pines, the smell of<br />
Dry earth becomes<br />
That of honeysuckles<br />
After a summer rain,<br />
The years are<br />
Stripped away like<br />
The tread from<br />
A tire and it<br />
Begs the question:<br />
How many facets<br />
Does a single<br />
Life have?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-41658498292414534452012-04-06T20:32:00.002-05:002012-04-06T20:32:50.896-05:006.<u><span lang="ES-TRAD">Limpísimo</span></u><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Martita sueña <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Que su esposo <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Entra y le dice:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">¡Mi amor, en la vida <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Habia visto un piso<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Tan limpio como<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Éste! Flor de <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">La mañana, angelita,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Chiquistriquis de mi<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Corazón, ven, ¡VEN<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">A mí, para desvestirte<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Aquí sobre este piso<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Tan impecable!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">El esposo de Martita sueña<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Que Jordan juega otra vez<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Con los Bulls.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="ES-TRAD"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>Squeaky</u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Martha dreams</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">That her husband</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Walks in and says:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">My love, never in my life</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Have I seen a floor </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">As clean as</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This one! Morning</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Glory, Angel Face, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Hunny Wunny</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cakes, come, COME</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">To me that I might</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Disrobe you here on </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This immaculate floor!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Martha’s husband dreams</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">That Jordan plays for </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Bulls again. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-84437358064985435572012-04-05T22:28:00.001-05:002012-04-05T22:28:52.285-05:005.<u><span lang="ES-TRAD">El general (villanelle)</span></u><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> El general ofrece sólo un consejo:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Ten tu pistola siempre presente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> De niño, su mama siempre estuvo ausente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> No rozó su mejilla ni con un sólo beso.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> De joven, se convirtió en creyente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Por él sólo una ley, una ley de hierro existió:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Ten tu pistola siempre presente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> De adulto, quería salir con vida, simplemente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Supo que sólo en la tierra existe el infierno.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> De viejo, mantenía ágil la mente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Afilada la lengua, agudo el oído. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Y tenía su pistola siempre presente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Sentado en su butaca, le decía a la gente, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> El amor a mí nunca falta me hizo. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> Ten tu pistola siempre presente.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The translation is a teense odd, but I was trying to translate and maintain the rhyme scheme, bleh!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u>The General (villanelle)<o:p></o:p></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The heart can’t feel what the eyes don’t see. </div><div class="MsoNormal">The general offers only one piece of advice:</div><div class="MsoNormal">A Beretta 92 is all a man needs. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As a child, his mother paid him no heed,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Or filled his bedtime stories with intrigue and lies.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The heart can’t feel what the eyes don’t see.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As an adolescent, he developed his creed.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Winning is paramount, no matter the price.</div><div class="MsoNormal">A Beretta 92 is all a man needs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As a man, he learned from foul deeds </div><div class="MsoNormal">That Earth is the only place one feels Hell’s fires. </div><div class="MsoNormal">The heart can’t feel what the eyes don’t see.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> As an old man, he felt quite at ease,</div><div class="MsoNormal"> With the power he’d bought with men’s lives.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> A Beretta 92 is all a man needs..</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sitting back in his chair, he'd say to the breeze</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love? That’s not what keeps a man alive.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The heart can’t feel what the eyes don’t see.</div><div class="MsoNormal">A Beretta 92 is all a man needs.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-50665586012634613972012-04-04T23:31:00.004-05:002012-04-04T23:42:37.757-05:004.<u><span lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p> </o:p></span>Parque Bicentenario</u><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Las niñas juegan un ratito en unos juegos<br />
Con extraños palmares azules encima,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Y piedritas afiladas abajo,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Hasta que empiezan a cantar,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">¡Tenemos que ir al baño!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">No van hacía la casa, sino hacía el río;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Juran que saben donde se puede.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Los árboles que bordan el río<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Están rodeados por girasoles<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Marchitados por el sol, que emiten <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Un olor embriagador de junípero.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">El refri y las botellas de cerveza<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Provocan remolinos hipnotizantes que</span><br />
Llenan la tarde con un murmullo somnoliento.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Las niñas suben el banco agarradas<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Por la mano y, de repente, las veo con<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Otros ojos. Ojos que ven como los árboles<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Y las flores ocultan todo de la vista y<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Como el agua es lo único que se escucha,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Como las niñas también pueden ser marchitadas<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Por algo seco, inhumano e incompasivo. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>Bicentennial Park<o:p></o:p></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The girls play for a bit on a jungle gym </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">With inexplicably blue palm trees on top</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And sharp little stones below,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Until they start to sing,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We need to go to the bathroom!<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Instead of home, they make for the river;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">They swear they know a place.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The trees that border the river</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Are surrounded by sunflowers,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Desiccated by the sun, which emit</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The heady smell of juniper.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">An old fridge and beer bottles </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Provoke hypnotizing eddies, which</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Fill the afternoon with a drowsy buzz.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The girls come up the bank hand in</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Hand and suddenly I see them with</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Different eyes. Eyes that see how the</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Trees and flowers screen everything,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">How the only thing you hear is the water,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">How girls can also be withered by </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Something dry, inhuman and unfeeling. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-31991971103088925232012-04-03T23:33:00.003-05:002012-04-04T23:31:41.472-05:003.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"><u>Lunar</u></span><br />
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Enmarcada por ramos extendidos, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">La luna se apodera de la noche. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Las estrellas huyen sin mirar por atrás,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Mientras el cuerpo celestial egomaníaco <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Se estira, se acomoda, inhala y <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Sopla con todo lo que tiene.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Los lobos y los poetas se enloquecen,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">La marea se tensa y se afloja,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Ciclando con el aliento frenético de la luna,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Quien, inconstante, se cansa de un juego <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Que nunca gana y se achica, esperando a<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Las estrellas, que le cantan hasta al amanecer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p><u>Lunar</u></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Framed by outstretched branches,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">The moon seizes the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">The stars flee without a look back,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">As the egomaniacal celestial body<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Stretches, gathers itself, inhales and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Blows out its cheeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Wolves and poets alike go mad,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">The tide becomes taut and then slackens,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Cycling with the frenetic breathing of the moon,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Who, inconstant, becomes tired of a game<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">It never wins, and shrinks, awaiting the return of<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">The stars, who sing to it until dawn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-23797158294196043442012-04-02T21:31:00.011-05:002012-04-04T23:32:11.690-05:002.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>Sueño Borroso</u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Las paredes del color de una mora azul,</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Peludas y onduladas cómo una cóclea,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Absorben todo sonido y luz y dejan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Una sensación de bocina volada. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Por ellas se pasa en cámara lenta,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dando vueltas con un zumbido ligero<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Y la sensación de que uno está<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nadando en un río de mermelada espesa. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tal víspera de ingravidez deja los<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Músculos de los brazos y las piernas<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tan flojos como un fideo recocido,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sensación que se mantiene al despertar. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div>TRANSLATION!<br />
<br />
<u>Fuzzy Dream</u><br />
The blueberry-colored walls,<br />
Fuzzy and coiled as a cochlea,<br />
Absorb all sound and light and leave<br />
A sensation like a blown speaker.<br />
<br />
One passes through them in slowmo,<br />
Spinning with a mild buzzing sound,<br />
And the sensation that one is<br />
Swimming in a river of thick jam.<br />
<br />
Such a night of weightlessness leaves<br />
The muscles of the arms and legs<br />
As slack as an overcooked noodle,<br />
A sensation which continues upon waking.<br />
<br />
<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-67367906695438648032012-04-01T22:22:00.008-05:002012-04-04T23:32:50.699-05:001.<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Expatronizing</span></u><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don’t have to compete with any of you </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Because I have removed myself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Your brands, trends, Land's Ends, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cannot hope to trump my duds, woven by</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Indigenous women w</span><span lang="ES-TRAD">ho gossip in a language </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">In</span> which colors are verbs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">As you eat your Greek yogurt a</span><span lang="ES-TRAD">nd d</span>rink your </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shade-grown Guatemalan coffee bought at Starbucks,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I sip coffee that has been pooped out </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By a civet, and eat quesadillas made with cheese<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Prepared by</span> Benedictine nuns who wake up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At 4 to milk Trinity, the three-legged cow, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Before the Office of Vigils. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">In your Hybrid you listen to </span>Buena Vista Social Club</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And pride yourself on how international </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and <i>naughty</i> you are (they're Cuban!), <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">But I take a bus with no glass in the windows to work</span>,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Accompanied by chickens and stoic children</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And a live trio of drunk octogenarians who croon</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Hemingway delira" while miraculously maintaining </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their balance as the bus dodges potholes, dogs and fallen palm fronds. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-22059358053618163912012-03-15T15:12:00.001-06:002012-03-15T15:12:51.906-06:00NaPoWriMo 2012Bunble Bee will wake up soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-39551667837358363952011-04-25T22:38:00.000-05:002011-04-25T22:38:15.418-05:00Delicious RiddleI'm wrapped up like a papoose,<br />
With fronds like a palm.<br />
As much salsa as Cuba,<br />
Bursting with gondola-shaped <br />
Chiles and tomato balloons.<br />
Cream like sea-foam and a <br />
Flurry dusting of cheese.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-37299109652122597812011-04-24T23:10:00.001-05:002011-04-24T23:12:48.026-05:00GrrrrWhen the Grumpalumpagous comes to town,<br />
Garrumphing on his way to the Galapagos Islands,<br />
He is apt to be querulous and garrulous, <br />
And greedy for gorgonzola and gobstoppers.<br />
Beware his gaping, growling gullet, and even<br />
More so his gruff and grouchy gossipmongering.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-67548826527759262972011-04-24T22:22:00.001-05:002011-04-24T22:22:58.705-05:00BumbleHours are made of bees<br />
Droning by on stained-glass wings.<br />
Humming and fizzing or<br />
Whirring and wizzing,<br />
Passing however they please.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-19807220911908545022011-04-22T22:59:00.004-05:002011-04-22T23:00:44.310-05:00Fiamille Nonnet“Chirp chirp pio” say three little birds,<br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">All day long, caring for an egg.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Dressed in each other’s feathers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">At night they jump the nest<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">And fly to their fa-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Vourite fountain<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">To drink and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Chirp in<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Style. <o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-39331393249270482092011-04-20T21:27:00.000-05:002011-04-20T21:27:37.278-05:00Found Winter NonnetFeel the bone structure of the landscape,<br />
The tendinous part of the mind.<br />
For those with no warm memories<br />
All of the winter through,<br />
Luxuriating,<br />
The sea runs back,<br />
Furies fight<br />
Unchained,<br />
Roar.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-16333223225983846002011-04-20T18:47:00.000-05:002011-04-20T18:47:51.315-05:00Airport HaikuSuspended in air,<br />
My eyes contain a desert.<br />
There's nothing to see.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-57240562056862854462011-04-18T13:09:00.000-05:002011-04-18T13:09:23.168-05:00Siesta SevenlingTodos las noches duermo<br />
Acurrucada, cobijada,<br />
Y en tus brazos.<br />
<br />
Me duermo sin querer y sueño<br />
Con bailar, perderme en el tiempo<br />
Y ser comida para dragones.<br />
<br />
Duermo sin descansar.<br />
-----------------------------------------------------<br />
(Translation for mom and dad!)<br />
<br />
Every night I sleep<br />
Snuggled, bundled,<br />
And in your arms.<br />
<br />
I fall asleep unwillingly<br />
To dream of dancing, time travel<br />
And being food for dragons.<br />
<br />
I sleep without resting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-26379572408479222642011-04-17T19:40:00.004-05:002011-04-17T19:42:12.244-05:00Bunnet (o sea Bunny Sonnet)A long wooly cloud has come down from the sky<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">To lie unpreoccupied upon the kitchen floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">This mute cumulus creature bats nary an eye<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Unless a creak issues forth from the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Then, taking it upon himself to curl up with the air<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Of a crescent moon, his doe eyes look at one askant.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">“If you have something nice it’s hardly fair,”<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">He seems to say, “To be as churlish as a cat.”<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Candy or cracker, salad or sandwich,<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">With his charm he takes whatever he can glean:<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">And polishes it off, bit, smidge or pinch<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">And flops back into the same spot, appeased.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Oh flocculent gourmand! Oh voracious ball of fuzz!<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Now ever so much more corpulent than cumulus.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-64191343549146826622011-04-17T19:39:00.000-05:002011-04-17T19:39:28.245-05:00Anniversary Terzanelle<!--StartFragment--> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 191;"><tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Hemos visto todos los días una vez. <o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Pan de muerto, pozole y ponche. <o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">El amor no es lo que tu crees. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Recuerdo haber pensado, “No sé<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Si algún día estaré satisfecho.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Pan de muerto, pozole y ponche. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Tomo las cosas muy a pecho.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Y mi imaginación me come entero.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Quizás algún día estaré satisfecho. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Me falta esperar lo que espero.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">La tolerancia es una lección dura.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Y mi imaginación me come entero.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">No sé si la impaciencia tiene cura,<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Pero respiro y aminoro mi paso.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">La tolerancia es una lección dura.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Te escucharé y tú ponte en mi caso,<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Hemos visto todos los días sólo una vez.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">Por eso respiro y aminoro mi paso.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;" valign="top" width="232"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;">El amor no es lo que tu crees. <o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
</tbody></table><!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-46504951469085003992011-04-17T02:07:00.000-05:002011-04-17T02:07:07.801-05:00Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee"A people's dream died there"<br />
In a mass grave in Tamaulipas.<br />
Covered in a shroud of dew,<br />
They seem to sleep, embracing.<br />
Now they don't hear the whistle<br />
Of the train, telling them it's time<br />
To spend another day lying on<br />
A speeding metal bullet under<br />
An indifferent, foreign sun.<br />
Now they don't shamble before<br />
The coyote, hallucinating the sounds<br />
Of the Pacific against the shore.<br />
Now they know no thirst, hunger<br />
Fear or hope. No one knows them<br />
Either, nor in what dreams they<br />
Clothed themselves before the<br />
Last time they left home.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-29085010692154622762011-04-17T01:49:00.001-05:002011-04-17T02:07:29.196-05:00A Tour of the Calculus"Here is the proof."<br />
I saw it, so it can be seen.<br />
I heard it, so it can be heard.<br />
I felt it, so it can be felt.<br />
Beyond this, I have nothing;<br />
The possibilities for argument<br />
Against its existence are infinite.<br />
It cannot be said that this is a<br />
Very pretty argument, but<br />
It works.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Still playing catch-up... Last week was thesis-filled!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056195425706222056.post-8087120862577147822011-04-15T13:50:00.005-05:002011-04-17T17:37:29.581-05:00Things that are the Most<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"The silliest thing in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The world is a chicken</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In a frog costume"?</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ha! Let zem sink it's silly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I, Inspecteur Poulet, have</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bigger fish to frrry.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ten dead frrrogs in as</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Many days floating</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bug-eyed in the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><em style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Rhône?</span></em></span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Zis is no laughing matter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">So assassin of frogs beware.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Zis birrrd always gets his man.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The heat is officially making me le crazy!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1