Nanas de la Cebolla (Onion Lullabies), by Miguel Hernandez, 1939, was composed while the poet was in jail after the Spanish Civil War. It was sparked by a letter from his wife, where she told him that she only had bread and onions to eat, and that both she and his child suffered from severe […]
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Crown lullabies/Nanas de la corona
Posted in Fairy Tale, Guanajuato, Poetry, Spain, Writing on March 27, 2020 | 3 Comments »
Watching Saturn Rise
Posted in Existential, Guanajuato, Space/Universe, Travel on March 2, 2020 | 1 Comment »
With at least an hour before sunrise predawn roosters crow church bells chime dogs bark and I’m pretty sure that’s a mule bellowing
The Father-Daughter Dance
Posted in Dance, Daughters, Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Spain on February 22, 2020 | 2 Comments »
——-Dedicated to the 116 people laid to rest in the seemingly forgotten Cementerio Israelita, in El Cementerio de San Fernando, Seville, Spain. It pained me to know the end I wanted to ghost you to let you slip away as if there were nothing more to say as if your diminution from once being the […]
La Reconquista
Posted in Guadalquivir, River, Spain on February 17, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I walked your banks determined to reclaim you from history – from our story – make you my own
Beneath Aracena / Bajo Aracena
Posted in Caves, Fantasies, Spain on January 31, 2020 | 4 Comments »
Beneath the earth’s surface time is languid formations otherworldly, silent some millions, some thousands, of years in the making a thousand years from now gazers will see the centimeter of growth