"tactics and strategy"

"mi táctica es
mirarte
aprender como eres
quererte como eres
. . . 
mi táctica es
quedarme en tu recuerdo
. . . quedarme en ti"

- Mario Benedetti
from "Táctica y estrategia"

my tactic is to look at you

to learn how you are

love you as you are

my tactic is to talk to you

and listen to you

and construct with words

an indestructible bridge

my tactic is to stay in your memory

i don't know how

nor with what pretext

but stay within you

my tactic is to be honest

and know you are too

and that we don't sell each other illusions

so that between us there is no curtain or abyss

my strategy instead is

deeper and simpler

my strategy is that some day

i don't know how nor with what pretext

that finally you need me

- Mario Benedetti
translation by Chris Kraul

post # 1001

"luna lunera"

                                           august grain moon that happened to be blue too -

                   . . ."i dream of lost
vocabularies that might express some of what
we no longer can." . . . - Jack Gilbert
                                            from "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart"

mid-august descent

_ _ _

behind the frosted eye
of a fire-bird

                                  i watched

the midsummer sun-
set  flames upon a viole(n)t
sea of clouds ablaze

                                  descending

stone on the (l)edge

"but it is also a crack in the heart - a tightrope, a brink, a ledge."

staring autumn in the eye

medusa syndrome series V

dance, baby! dance

female great-tailed grackle

window shopping XXII - mannequin

fragile as a heartbeat

fruit gondola

blossoms and seedpods

on a laden august tree

blossoms and seedpods together

at once

for there is no room for seasons

to reason why  it's time to be

life that is

terrified of being late (again)

waste another day without

a loved one

walking in fishnets

roofless temple

at sundown - light exits the west-
gate of earth's roofless temple