writing since when...
hear then
their language not mine
At this time every year I miss you. Our life together seems a dream. Today I light incense, pray,
"Stay a little longer near the surface of my heart."
Fields have spread.
Duff muffed, shed winds, remain refuge, a manger.
The moon rises midday. Darkness swells at half past four.
More snow. Warm hearts slowed sleep deeply.
Midnight leans in,
shims winter boughs, makes space for a slate-coloured child,
not a god,
and stars.
夢 |
It is 1543. I see a storm begins.
Tanegashima, Kagoshima, Kyushu.
デウス (Deusu)
Births will follow wombs
oceans
wounds.
Lúcio De Sousa, The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Leiden: Brill, 2019, 594 pp. ISBN 9789004388079. $217.00.
Whereas partus sequitur ventrem ("the birth follows the womb") laws and their effects on the lives of enslaved women and their children are well understood in the Atlantic context, they remain entirely unstudied in the case of the slave trade in Asia, in particular Portuguese Asia, the string of entrepôts between India and Japan. McManus, Stuart
roupa velha, farrapo velho.
caras de bacalau
‘punheta’
explicar
Mas nossos ouvidos estão frios.
explicar
Marinheiros
punheta à la bacalhau
elogiar peixes
old clothes, old rag.
bacalau guys
‘Wank’ off
explain
But our ears are cold.
explain
Seamen
jerk off to cod
also consider the 5 Blue Zones of health and happiness
BLUE BOOK
USA
belloq's storyville 1898-1917
https://64parishes.org/entry/new-orleans-blue-books
blue book tests 1920's Indiana
A blue book is literally a book with about 20 lined pages that college, graduate, and sometimes high school students use to answer test questions. More specifically, a blue book refers to the type of exams that require students to use these books to complete the test.
Kelley's New and Used Car Blue Book
The Blue Book
The Learning Language Arts Through Literature series begins with The Blue Book. This complete beginning phonics and language arts program artfully integrates phonics instruction with all of the other areas of language arts that need to be covered at first grade level: reading skills, spelling, handwriting, and grammar. The course also teaches more higher-order thinking skills than do many other first grade programs.
Based on Dr. Ruth Beechick's ideas about learning, the course does not assume that children learned to read in kindergarten. However, children should be able to identify letters, and it would be very helpful if they know some or most of the primary sounds of the letters. Early in the course, the first group of letters—a, n, r, and t—is introduced. In this same lesson, students learn about consonants and vowels as well as blending letters to form words. This progression will likely be too fast for children who do not already know letters and sounds.
INDIA
“Your face is blue, madam. Like that of Krishna,” the taxi driver said affably, as he took me back to my hotel.
In Hinduism there are three main deities: Brahma the creator, Shiva the destroyer and Vishnu the preserver. Vishnu spends eternity sleeping, until when called upon in a crisis, he wakes and like the most powerful of superheroes saves the world.
Krishna is a manifestation of Vishnu. His name means “dark,” and like Vishnu he is portrayed with blue skin.
In addition to being associated with the gods, blue—through the indigo dye—is also historically linked with India. In the first century a. d. the Roman historian Pliny the Elder wrote about “indicum, a production of India,” which “yields a marvelous combination of purple and cerulean [sky blue].”
He suggested that the dye was a kind of slime sticking to the scum on river reeds. It actually comes from a bush with small green leaves that when dried and fermented in a dye vat look pretty scummy, which explains the misunderstanding.
In Pliny’s time, indigo would probably be shipped to the Roman port of Ostia in the form of hard cakes. It was valuable enough to fake: Pliny reports people selling “indigo cakes” made from dried pigeon dung, stained with just enough genuine dye to pass as real.
Indigo is intensive to process, and has historically been cultivated where labor is cheap. It had a brief heyday on slave plantations in the Caribbean and South Carolina in the 18th century, pricing the Indian plantations out of the market. But when slavery was abolished, the British planted indigo again in Bengal, where weather conditions are ideal.
Because laborers were subject to abuse, there were two “blue mutinies”—one in 1860 and another in 1917. The second was initiated by the 47-year-old Hindu lawyer Mohandas (later known as Mahatma) Gandhi, as one of his first acts of peaceful civil disobedience against British rule, which finally led to Indian independence in 1947.
AFRICA
“Indigo grows wild in almost every part of the African Coast … Besides the Indigo, there is another plant which the natives use as a blue dye, which appears to impart a more indelible color, and which, should it stand the test of experiment, might also be cultivated.”
–British Report of the Committee of the African Institution: West African Produce, 25 March 1808
Africans have used indigo for centuries as symbol of wealth and
fertility. Indigo-dyed cotton cloth excavated from caves in Mali date to
the 11th century and many of the designs are still used by modern West
Africans. The Tauregs, “blue men” of the Sahara, are famous for their
indigo robes, turbans, and veils that rub blue pigment into their skin.
Yoruba dyers of Nigeria produce indigo cloth called adire alesso using
both tie-and-dye and resist dye techniques, while honoring Iya Mapo, as
the patron god of their exacting craft. Dyers of the Kanuri (Cameroon
and Nigeria) and Fulani (modern Niger and Burkina-Faso) ethnic groups
popularized indigo near Lake Chad and through portions of West Africa.
Most African dyers are women including among the Yoruba, the Malike and Dogan of Mali, and the Soninke of Senegal. Dyeing is also performed by men among the Mossi (Burkina-Faso) and the Hausa, who have produced indigo-dyed textiles in the ancient city of Kano (Northern Nigeria) since the 15th century.
Corbin Boyd Brickmason born a slave freedman specialised in chimneys N.C. 1817 -1917
https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000151
dokudami
朝顔 asagao
つばき tsubaki
タンポポ tanpopo
あじさい ajisai
ローズ
菊 kiku
桜の花 sakura no hana
Rocky Mountain Parnassia (K.D. Koenig)
Himalayan Clematis
Clematis Montana
ranunculae
5 petaled large white Buttercup
Lespedeza Japanese clover
unknown - four petaled, white fingered
Mochringia laterflora
Blackthorn or sloe
Prunus spinose seiyosumono
Lantana
Iris
Asclepias verticillata Whorled Milkweed
Galinsoga
Greater beggar's tick
prostrate camomile
tridax procumbens (L.) L compositae Coatbuttons
bidens alba/ pilosa L. Shepherd's needle, common beggar's tick
Bidens bipinnata L. compositae Spanish needles
Perityle emoryi Tom. compositae Emory's rock daisy
Asteracae
White Marsh Marigold
Entoptic phenomena are visual effects whose source is within the
eye itself.
In Helmholtz's words: "Under suitable conditions light falling on the
eye may render visible certain objects within the eye itself. These
perceptions are called entoptical."
this my year of repair
where I indoctrinated
break open
see
that a tree
is not a tree
but a psychic space
of greed and grief
power and sorrow
history's witnesses
Love them.
tanka
31 syllables
a single unbroken line
_______________________
wheezing
inhaler
albuterol
write these 3 in cuneiform clay
bake and break
_________________________
Why did I, Richard Mayhew,
think so much of you that I wrote your name without a nudge
of a note to remember you by?
Oh yes
these trees
these places of
these spaces of
https://hyperallergic.com/588448/richard-mayhew-transcendence/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlYbStrFOuc
write Richard Mayhew in seeds
water and grow
know he's 96 years
on this earth
a Sequoyah
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On either side,
punctured
shores
urge colder, colder.
Warmer water
refuses,
slipping
under the quick quake
submergence
of
crusts,
shouts
past
frozen
ledges,
unbroken.
boil pale,
resist
linear impulses,
stagger through
swag wash or
shrub carr.
Converging
channels
reach forward,
hover shelf ice,
disappear.
Below
thick
river
snow
a roar,
unquieted,
defiant.
Речка движется и не движется
Вся из лунного серебра
Песня слышится и не слышится
В эти тихие вечера
Rechka dvizhetsya i ne dvizhetsya
Vsya iz lunnogo serebra
Pesnya slyshitsya i ne slyshitsya
V eti tikhiye vechera
The river moves and does not move
All of moon silver
The song is heard and not heard
On these quiet evenings
- from Moscow Nights
composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky
wrote the song in 1955 with the title "Leningradskie Vechera"
ダメ 「ダめ」 name - an imperative - not allowed
えさ esa - animal +
やん suffix "yan" - familiar animal
ネコのミヌース (映画) |
Neko no Minūsu
Neko no Minūsu - Undercover Kitty (film)
Undercover Kitty is a 2001 Dutch film,
based on the children's novel Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt.
https://jisho.org/word/518696c9d5dda7b2c604590f