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The Friends of Heraclitus

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:45:05 -0700

Your friend has died, with whom
You roamed the streets,
At all hours, talking philosophy.
So, today you went alone,
Stopping often to change places
With your imaginary companion,
And argue back against yourself
On the subject of appearances:
The world we see in our heads
And the world we see daily,
So difficult to tell apart
When grief and sorrow bow us over.

You two often got so carried away
You found yourselves in strange neighborhoods
Lost among unfriendly folk,
Having to ask for directions
While on the verge of a supreme insight,
Repeating your question
To an old woman or a child
Both of whom may have been deaf and dumb.

What was that fragment of Heraclitus
You were trying to remember
As you stepped on the butcher’s cat?
Meantime, you yourself were lost
Between someone’s new black shoe
Left on the sidewalk
And the sudden terror and exhilaration
At the sight of a girl
Dressed up for a night of dancing
Speeding by on roller skates.

— Charles Simic

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marisqueira #1...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:28 -0700

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marisqueira #2...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:28 -0700

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Chuva

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:18:52 -0700

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As coisas vulgares que há na vida
Não deixam saudades
Só as lembranças que doem
Ou fazem sorrir

Há gente que fica na história
da história da gente
e outras de quem nem o nome
lembramos ouvir

São emoções que dão vida
à saudade que trago
Aquelas que tive contigo
e acabei por perder

Há dias que marcam a alma
e a vida da gente
e aquele em que tu me deixaste
não posso esquecer

A chuva molhava-me o rosto
Gelado e cansado
As ruas que a cidade tinha
Já eu percorrera

Ai... meu choro de moça perdida
gritava à cidade
que o fogo do amor sob chuva
há instantes morrera

A chuva ouviu e calou
meu segredo à cidade
E eis que ela bate no vidro
Trazendo a saudade

— Jorge Fernando

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chuva...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:07 -0700

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sorriso #1...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:04:59 -0700

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where the noam chomsky mural is being swallowed up by capitalism (naturally)...

sorriso #2...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:04:59 -0700

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pleonasmo...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:19:38 -0700

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ontem à tarde #1...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:14:15 -0700

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ontem à tarde #2...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:14:14 -0700

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sapatos...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:28:09 -0700

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The Secret Garden

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:23:22 -0700

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I was ill, lying on my bed of old papers,
when you came with white rabbits in your arms;
and the doves scattered upwards, flying to mothers,
and the snails sighed under their baggage of stone . . .

Now your tongue grows like celery between us:
Because of our love-cries, cabbage darkens in its nest;
the cauliflower thinks of her pale, plump children
and turns greenish-white in a light like the ocean’s.

I was sick, fainting in the smell of teabags,
when you came with tomatoes, a good poetry.
I am being wooed. I am being conquered
by a cliff of limestone that leaves chalk on my breasts.

— Rita Dove

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pat it and prick it...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:18:49 -0700

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...and mark it with a...

ligados...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:39:42 -0700

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And if you think of Brick, for instance,
and you say to Brick,“What do you want Brick?”
And Brick says to you
“I like an Arch.”
And if you say to Brick
“Look, arches are expensive,
and I can use a concrete lintel over you.
What do you think of that?”
“Brick?”
Brick says:
“… I like an Arch”

— Louis I. Kahn

yellow peril...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:32:37 -0700

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febre maculosa...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:29:39 -0700

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barafunda #1...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:40:38 -0700

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isto deve ganhar o prêmio...

barafunda #2...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:40:38 -0700

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Imaginary Countries: The Real World

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:53:28 -0700

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In the real world
lovers part at morning with a kiss
and look back longingly
before they pass from sight.

They go insouciant to work
and smile at times;
their life’s Vivaldi.

Others bring what poetry they can into a life
by counting days
until employment comes again.
They look at cherries in the fruit store and imagine
biting in. They look so good.

Children break from singing in the drill hall,
burst outside to toss their frisbees in the park.
A boy plays Satie on the piano;
two Americans embrace
as traffic whispers up the drive.
They are embarking for the real world’s farthest shore.

In the real world
someone signs petitions
every moment, tidies other people’s trash
and greets another who is loved by someone else.
This is how the real world copes with being economics,
mathematics and ecology and botany
and waiting for the bus.

Costumed people earn their living slipping
from the real world to persuade us to buy moon-cakes,
supple skin and perfect hair.
We smile to see them aping us.

Gymnorhina tibicen swoops low and boasts her turf:
the children run and shout out, ‘Magpie’
while the bird recalls the day in mimic song;
order then restored, she dines alfresco on their scraps.

And while we watch Magritte’s sky turn El Greco,
roofs de Chirico beneath the plastic clouds,
a plane is pasted on a sudden patch of blue.

— Michael Sharkey

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gordian #1...

nobody@flickr.com (bruce grant) — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:31:55 -0700

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