Natural Arts

La dolce vita

Revisited

Faro de Santa Pola

The snotgreen sea,
the scrotumtightening sea,
Mr Joyce would probably write.

Isla de Tabarca

Breakfast under palms

Under palms and Spanish sun

an English breakfast

three days later
four magic months
would end

Thalatta

The sea being the model.

Friday is Skyday

Colmena
iVivimos en celdas
de cristal,
en colmena de aire!
Nos besamos a través
de cristal.
iMaravillosa cárcel,
cuya puerta
es la luna!
- - -
Beehive
We live in cells
of crystal
in a beehive of air!
We are kissing each other
through crystal.*
Wonderful prison,
the door of which
is the moon!

* cristal: glass, crystal, water (poetical)

Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936)

Laughing Lhursday*

Find the fault.

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Hibiscus

. . .

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño (28 April 1953 – 14 July 2003)

Not only at breakfast

Reading endangers stupidity.

Dwarfs and others

Little flower with much power.
Or:
Watching these dwarf pansies
I am coming to think
of certain intellectual dwarfs
and their "followers"
casting gigantic shades
whilst the sun of wisdom
is sinking deepest.*

* With thanks to Karl Krauss

Léo Ferré: Le Bateau ivre

Léo Ferré (14 August 1916 – 14 July 1993)

Friday is Skyday

Well, a Thursday morning
in February 2019.

Laughing Lhursday*

You might think this is a bathroom.
It is not.
It is a mobile home.
What for you might look like a toilet seat
is the driver's seat,
and what for you might look like a red lid
actually is the detachable steering wheel.
Got it, so far?
Fine.

These are Jasper and Jenny,
the owner's youngest children.
In the bottom left corner you see
the diaper changing table.
Almost familiar now?
Fine.

Not to forget
the three dogs, the cat and the duck,
– their current names escaped me –
who accompany us to the Baltic Sea
recently several times a week,
thankfully guarding the potty
standing close to the cooking plate.
But that's a story for another day.
*
Happy World Book Day.

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.