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Santa Maria La Longa il 26 gennaio 1917
M'illumino
d'immenso
d'immenso
Santa Maria La Longa 26 January 1917
Morning arrives
Big Time
Big Time
Santa Maria La Longa 26 January 1917
Morning arrives
Wide Eyed
Giuseppe Ungaretti: Mattina (Morning), from L'allegria di naufragi (Joy of Shipwrecks), 1919, trans. (with variant) TC
Flower of the "Peach Glow" cultivar of water-lily (Nymphaea), just after rain, Brooklyn Botanic Garden: photo by Ragesoss, 2008
Astronaut photo of ash cloud from volcanic eruption, Mt. Cleveland, Alaska, 26 March 2006: image by ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment/Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center, 2006 (ESA/NASA)
Cone Nebula, a star-forming pillar of gas and dust, 7 light years long, 2,500 light years away from Earth, in constellation Monoceros: Hubble Space telescope image by ACS Science Team, 2 April 2002 (NASA)
Red-eyed Tree Frog (Agalychichnis callidryas), near Playa Jaco, Costa Rica: photo by Carey James Balboa, 2007
Flower of the "Peach Glow" cultivar of water-lily (Nymphaea), just after rain, Brooklyn Botanic Garden: photo by Ragesoss, 2008
Astronaut photo of ash cloud from volcanic eruption, Mt. Cleveland, Alaska, 26 March 2006: image by ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment/Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center, 2006 (ESA/NASA)
Cone Nebula, a star-forming pillar of gas and dust, 7 light years long, 2,500 light years away from Earth, in constellation Monoceros: Hubble Space telescope image by ACS Science Team, 2 April 2002 (NASA)
Red-eyed Tree Frog (Agalychichnis callidryas), near Playa Jaco, Costa Rica: photo by Carey James Balboa, 2007
morning's here
ReplyDeleteheavy load
Morning arrives
ReplyDeletea little
too early.
sunrise wasted
ReplyDeleteon the insomniac
Every morning is an oportunity for an awakening. Good morrow =)
ReplyDeleteTom,
ReplyDeleteYes, again today it (morning) arrived - - -
6.12
first grey light in sky above blackness
of ridge, silver of planet above branch
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
reflection of thought itself,
present phenomena which
further, pictorial synthesis
here, instance observed
cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,
cormorants flapping across toward point
The red-eyed tree frog (that's a proper name, no irrelevancies like "flat-headed"): what an inspiration. Cricketers ought to revert to white, but how much better the World Cup teams could look dressed in shiny outfits like that, with red sunglasses.
ReplyDelete(And orange boots and gloves).
ReplyDeleteAnd (blinding) arrives again, calling "Chi-ca-go" --
ReplyDelete6.13
silver edge of sun rising over shadowed
plane of ridge, quail calling Chi-ca-go
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
thinking the sense of a note,
look beyond perspective
is what makes position, body
echo, how long it takes
cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,
shadowed green canyon of ridge above it
Drummond described one of his versings from another language as
ReplyDelete"paraphrasticalie translated"
...
/dawn: dimwit
dimlit
/me in the limo
dyed menstrual
AJP,
ReplyDeleteTwo years ago I did a post on an English sporting site in which I suggested the England uniforms are bland and dull. There was unhappiness about that (it was a British site). I notice they have not changed their kit as yet.
I would agree that the red-eyed tree frog design would make a very vivid kit. The closest to realizing this sort of "colour concept" in recent World Cup entries was the Cameroon side of a few years back which wore tight-fitted shimmering green and red. That shiny form-fitting spandex-y number was outlawed by the grand overlords of FIFA for some reason I forget (fear of beauty, I believe it was), but the colours at least are maintained in the current kit of Cameroon.
As for the red eyes, that would probably take a few nights out on the town followed by early morning training.
(On a probably entirely unrelated subject -- though perhaps not really as all this colour business is after all related at least approximately to natural selection -- a few nights back I heard a straight-faced, somber interview with the head of the medical staff of one of the Latin American teams, who, when asked his recommendations as to sexual conduct between the players and their wives/girlfriends in the run-up to these titanic matches, said that the type and pace of conjugal activity advised was "normal". I should hope so.)
Steve,
position, body
echo
pretty much sums things up, as to all the above. Sort of.
Bill, I love
/dawn: dimwit
dimlit
English will never be as mellifluous and sonorous as Italian, and so we're bound to come out sounding a bit daffy with this one; you have taken that drawback of the endeavour and made it into an advantage.
Bravo.
In 1685 John Dryden, then the Poet Laureate, confessed, "For this past half Year I have been troubled with the disease (as I may call it) of Translation."
That was when he was in the throes of his Vergil. A project that might have been improved by a dash of paraphrastical rascality?
If they'd taken your advice, they wouldn't be in this mess. We had the current England strip when I was at school; it wasn't inspirational, if anything it made you want to take a nap.
ReplyDeleteCameroon's not bad, but personally I'd be more likely to go to bed with the tree frog.
AJP,
ReplyDeleteThat might give a whole new meaning to the phrase "bed hopping".
Cameroon's on right now and here we are talking about sex with tree frogs.
In fact one might say they are "on song", as Alex Song plays in midfield for them. And here we are talking about...
There was an article I surfed extremely swiftly past the other day, "What the Internet Does to the Brain".
Something wonderful it must do, wouldn't you speculate?