Percorrer as trilhas do Pontal do Atalaia no Parque Estadual Costa do Sol e me deter nos mirantes para admirar as vistas do Atlântico, oceano cor de esmeralda e zafiro; Caminhar pelas praias de areia branca, macia e fina no Arraial do Cabo e apreciar os reflexos do sol na água clara perto da orla; … Continue reading Musement em Arraial do Cabo
Odysseus has become a pseudo-Christian, white, Anglophone man, anxious about the crumbling of the United Statesian Empire (which he equates to Civilization), in Christopher Nolan's recently released film The Odyssey. The transformation of Odysseus from a pagan adventurer, schemer, and lover into a brooding, moralizing prude, anxious about the fall of his own civilization, thoroughly … Continue reading A Pseudo-Christian Odysseus for a Late Empire
一Nadar en aguas frías del Atlántico: placer invernal. Aguas calmas para el nadador 二Salir al muelle, admirar la Cruz del Sur: ser solitario. Vista nocturna Mapa estelar 三Lento caminar sobre la blanca arena: sentir quietud. Vista diurna 四 Márchase Helios. Selene embellece la mar carioca. Selene sobre Ilha Grande 五Venus seduce a su amante León … Continue reading Breves suspiros cariocas
Emily Grosholz (1950-2026) was a poet of reasonability and sensibility, of portentous breadth and depth in the subjects of her poetry --mathematics, cosmology, nature, family, travel, love, art works, friendship, loss, quotidian joy, and more--, and of tremendous richness of poetic resources. Above all, her poetry harmonized truth, goodness, and beauty under the guidance of … Continue reading Emily Grosholz: A Walk in the Wilderness
一Florece Iris, divina mensajera--grato augurio. Viola tricolor 二Musa tricolor--pensamiento silvestre,agreste emoción. "Mira que orilla tengo de jacintos" -- Federico García Lorca
Every day has its beauty. One of my journaling practices, when I don't have much time and energy to write, is to jot down the most marvelous detail I noticed that day (since I generally write at night, just before going to bed). The observed details are often minimal but significant. Today has been a … Continue reading Red Flash over White Winter Landscape
The vital spontaneity of life brought William Wordsworth's "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" to my heart-mind on Saturday, as my family and I visited the Cementerio General in San José, to honor and remember my father R.C.M., my grandmother D.M.A., my grandfather E.C.J., and other ancestors, up to my great-great grandmother or tatarabuela, who rest … Continue reading Taking Cues from Wordsworth: Ode on Intimations of Immortality
Ha renacido el lirio caminante-- flor de estío.
Sol decembrino--de rosas, pasifloras es fuente de vida, amparo luminoso en mi jardín tropical. Passiflora alata Rosa magenta [Foto de portada: Passiflora vitifolia]
Hoy mi papá hubiera cumplido setenta y nueve años. Han pasado casi once meses desde que falleció. Acá comparto unos apuntes de mi cuaderno personal sobre mi lectura de Platero y yo, del Premio Nobel español Juan Ramón Jiménez. No lo había leído desde la escuela primaria. Pero en la misa del funeral, en la … Continue reading Juan Ramón Jiménez: Platero y yo
Daniel G. Campos 