Buoyantville... where words float.Training Paradiso- April 28, 2008 Somewhere in the Austrian Alpshttp://buoy.antville.org/stories/1789369/ In the Morning You Always Come Back- April 22, 2008 Dawn&8217;s faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale&8212; you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath&8212; the night is done. You are light and morning. original title by Pavese in English, written for his lover, the American actress Constance Dowling Notes: As I.http://buoy.antville.org/stories/1786835/ Tulipland Snippets- April 20, 2008 A) How to feel poor Hand $100 to the sharply dressed Dutch lady at the ABN Amro counter, and get &8364;55 back - how the mighty have fallen! Self is also reeling from sticker shock: a dozen tulips (quite lovely, in the deepest blue) some &8364;20. Don't they grow these things here by the millions! B) Europe Airport Modern: is there an architectural school by this name While American airports are quite heterogeneous in the details of their style, European airports, admittedly in far fewer...http://buoy.antville.org/stories/1786088/ Journeymen- April 19, 2008 Dante, Kafka, Hesse and he Will wander about in the lands Of Visigoths and Romans for The next three weeks, in which There will be much drinking, much eating, and perhaps more reading - some documentary evidence Of which may surface here. in Asterix's formulationhttp://buoy.antville.org/stories/1786050/ Going There - Jack Gilbert- April 18, 2008 Of course it was a disaster. The unbearable, dearest secret has always been a disaster. The danger when we try to leave. Going over and over afterward what we should have done instead of what we did. But for those short times we seemed to be alive. Misled, misused, lied to and cheated, certainly. Still, for that little while, we visited our possible life.http://buoy.antville.org/stories/1785750/ Haiku- April 17, 2008 The color of Radhika's skin Enflamed with desire - skyline at horizon just before daybreak.http://buoy.antville.org/stories/1785135/ Saturday Morning Pleasure- April 12, 2008 ...is listening to Jorge Luis Borges talk about "This Craft of Verse": Borges giving the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1967-68. Thing I do to avoid doing things that I don't like to do (taxes!)http://buoy.antville.org/stories/1783260/ Photos To See- April 8, 2008 If you are in New York, and like cities, this exhibit is worth seeing I think - I am going this weekend.http://buoy.antville.org/stories/1781267/ |