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Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.

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L'aura del campo

'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos'
♣ Federico García Lorca ♣


Higgins Street Bridge, April 25th 2009, Missoula, Montana


L'aura del campo. A breeze in the meadow. So it began the last day of Spring, 2005; on the 16th day of the month of Light of the year 162. This is a supplement to my daily journal written to a friend, my muse; notes I do not share. Here I will share what the breeze has whispered to me.

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 Kåre *Leaf5* Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
~ Elizabeth Bishop,
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December 21, 2019 at 5:43pm
December 21, 2019 at 5:43pm
#971833
My favorite part of "winter" is the first and last snow and any day when the sun shines... like earlier. So 5 winter haikus.

1.

Swiftly snow falls,
a carpet for sandaled-feet
of the bobcat

Not a haiku but haiku-ish: (English syllables: 3/7/3; 11/14/7 Japanese 'on'); a seasonal word, snow; the comma cuts it into two parts; two images (more-or-less), snow and bobcat. What does it evoke? Maybe "silent" would be better than "swiftly'. It could evoke the silence of a heavy snow or the awe of seeing a bobcat. I dunno... I only write this stuff.

2.

Carpet of fresh
snow — sandaled footprints
of the bobcat

(4/5/4; 9/15/7) em-mark to break, a clearer two images than above and doesn't feel like a sentence. Evokes? Awe maybe.

3.

Carrots sweetened
by frost — grey whiskers
over thin lips

This one is (4/5/4 σ or 9/10/8 'on') frost indicates season (autumn, early winter), the em-mark — cuts into two parts, grey whiskers indicates age. It could evoke "age", maybe the sweetness of growing old.

4.

Pale yellow rays —
geraniums lean towards
frosted windows

(4/6/4 or 8/14/10) again frosted indicates winter, the juxtaposition might evoke longing or hope.

5.

A figure huddled
in blankets — one bulb
lights the hovel

Hmm... has a cutting punctuation. But what is the season? Winter is implied by 'huddled in blankets'. What emotion evoked? Sadness or loneliness maybe as poverty is also implied. (5/5/4 or 8/13/7)
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