2024-06-08 Best Friends Day
【Conch (Concha)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
To Natalia Jiménez
Somebody has given me a conch.
Inside, a sea map is singing.
My heart
fills with water&nb
2024-06-08 World Oceans Day
【The Interrupted Concert (El concierto interrumpido)】
The cold and somnolent pause-mark
Of the crescent moon
Has broken the harmony
Of the deep night.
&nbs
2024-06-07 National Donut Day
【In Vain I Migrate】
Abdellatif Laâbi (1942-Now)
I migrate in vain
In every city I drink the same coffee
and resign myself to the waiter's impassive face
The laughter of nearby tables
disturbs the evening's music
 
2024-06-06 National Yo-Yo Day
【My Mother's Language】
It's been twenty years since I last saw my mother
She starved herself to death
They say that each morning
she would pull her headscarf off
and strike the floor seven times
cursing the heavens and the Tyr
2024-06-06 National Fish & Chips Day
【Dish Of The Day】
For today's special
we'd like to recommend a very spicy
'killer' stew
The innkeeper
&n
2024-06-06 National Eyewear Day
【Fingerprints】
If we could write
simply by placing
fingerprints
2024-06-06 D-Day for Normandy Landings
【I'm a child of this dreary century】
I'm a child of this dreary century
a child who never grew up
Doubts that set my tongue on fire
2024-06-05 Global Running Day
【Sleepwalking Romance (Romance Sonámbulo)】
Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on the m
2024-08-05 National Start Over Day
【The Crazy Boy (El niño loco)】
I said: "Late"
But it wasn't like that.
The afternoon was something else
that had already gone away.
(And the light shrugged
2024-06-05 National Attitude Day
【Schematic Nocturne (Nocturno esquemático)】
The fennel, a serpent, and rushes.
Aroma, a sign, and penumbra.
Air, earth, and solitariness.