2024-08-08 National Pickleball Day

【Coccoloba Uvifera】 Nancy Anne Miller Like a scrotum full of seed, The cluster of bay grapes Hang down on a semitropical
Sandy beach. Wind-tide Nurtured, pink blueish as Any human flesh bruised,
It has come to us from Tropical storm thrashings. Here, the leaves, green plates
To eat from, I take nature's Servings. Sweetness Around a seed hard centre,
Used for a game of marbles, A ring around planets I draw Into seaside sand days. Trunk
Shaped berries, veiny leaves Like elephant ears, a herd Stampedes my memory bank. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《海葡萄》】 (百慕大)恩典·仁慈·米勒“磨坊主” 【紅霞譯】 像充滿種子的果實, 海葡萄串 掛在亞熱帶
沙灘上。潮汐風 滋養成長,粉藍色一如 人們的肌膚淤青,
我們已知 熱帶風暴來襲。 於此,葉子綠盤子
供作膳食,我接受大自然的 饋贈。甜味 繞着硬質種核,
用作彈珠遊戲, 我把環抱行星的圓環畫進 海灘度過的日子。
樹幹長滿漿果,紋理狀枝葉, 就像大象耳朵,成群結隊 湧進我的記憶庫。 【注】英屬百慕大“勇氣”群島四面環海資源稀缺,大部分食物依賴進口,結果哈密爾頓“曲山”首當其衝,生活成本指數居高不下,硬生打造出高收入高消費的花銷模式,因此穩居全球最貴首府排行榜之首,甚至離譜到凌駕於紐約城之上。 哈密爾頓面積不大,鬧市區只有方圓百尺,足以躋身天下最小的首府行列。看過第一座石造建築——議會大廈,路過朗姆酒的化身——百加得總部,自然也沒有錯過殖民地時期的歷史核心——聖三一大教堂,要不是時處仲夏八月,哈密爾頓烈日當空,早已烤幹上刀山下火海的熱情,我肯定會爬上收藏家山頂(Collector Hill)飽覽聯合國教科文組織《奴隸之路項目》——維德蒙特“綠山”莊園(Verdmont, 1710)。
Today in History(歷史上的今天): 2024: St. George's Fortifications, Bermuda(百慕大聖喬治島·防禦工事) 2024: UK-Crowned Bermuda w/ Quo Fata Ferunt(英屬百慕大·命運之所在) 2020 Film Criticism—Webs of Intricacy(高三·影評—複雜網絡) 2014: Punchliner on Carnival(嘉年華·妙語連珠) Hamilton, the Capital of Bermuda Found in 1790
(哈密爾頓·建於1790年的百慕大首府 08-08-2024) Waterfront & Marina (海濱碼頭)
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
(皇家百慕大遊艇俱樂部 08-08-2024) Front St, the Main Road (前街·主幹道)
Cenotaph Honoring Bermuda's War Dead Built in 1920 from Limestone & a Replica of the One in Whitehall, London & & Cabinet Bldg, Home to Bermuda's Senate
(百慕大參議院內閣大樓前《百慕大戰爭死難者》紀念碑·建於1920年,由石灰石製成,是倫敦白廳紀念碑的復製品) 
Sally Basset, an Enslaved African Woman from Bermuda about an Attempted Murder of a Slaveholder by a Slave (薩莉“公主”·巴塞特“小人物”——來自百慕大被奴役的非洲婦女,描述了一名奴隸試圖謀殺奴隸主的故事) Point House Fueling Demand on Front Street
(墩式住宅·刺激前街的需求) 
Sculpture of Against Da Tide Located under the Nose of HSBC Bank on Front Street (位於前街滙豐銀行大樓下的雕塑《逆流而上》) 
Church of the Holy Trinity, an Impressive Gothic Cathedral for the Anglican Church Completed in 1894 (聖三一教堂·引人注目的哥特式聖公會教堂,於1894年竣工) Cabinet Bldg & Senate Chamber Completed in 1938
(1938年完工的內閣大樓和參議院議事廳) City Hall & Arts Center (市政廳和藝術中心)
Sessions House, the 1st Stone Bldg & Home of Bermuda's House of Assembly & Supreme Court,
(塞申斯“同伴”大廈·第一座石砌建築,百慕大議會和最高法院所在地) Bermuda Headquarters of Bacardi
(百加得百慕大總部) Crosslinks(相關博文): UK-Crowned Bermuda w/ Quo Fata Ferunt(英屬百慕大·命運之所在) En Route to Bermuda via the Atlantic(經大西洋前往百慕大) Retreat on Board @ Cape Liberty, NJ(新州自由海角港·退修會登船) Bermuda(出遊百慕大) Caribbean(航游加勒比海) |