Baudelaire died today. 1867

Night Sky, Vilar de Andorinho, Looking West

The moon, waning crescent

waits below Saturn, Neptune

for the Blaze Star,

late, 

to erupt.

Above the sea,

Vega, Lyra,

Aquila, Cygnus

are in flight as

Pegasus buoyant

courses through the night.

I join them

dreaming of,

galactic streams of,

as yet unknown

light.

Satirical ostraca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cat waiting on a mouse

 

Hasegawa Tohaku  

Friend of Sen no Rikyū

 

 

Nothing

will.

Still.

 

This new mountain

is a hill

where

there 

will always be

a mountain higher

quiet soto day

しばい!

Shibai!

Drama!

私の近くで飛んでいる。

Watashi no chigaku te don de ee ru

Flying close to me.

Andorinhão-preto! Andorinha-dos-beirais! Andorinha!

Não há nada de vulgar em ti, passarinho!

 learn to let go 

know to relax is to think

with cool fog damp

comes muted sound

around the edges of sleep

it creeps in -

a mooring, a morning

w o r d s

 first words

are a kind of

found mutability

cemented by usage

but wearing down sounds

into different over time

 

roe or I 

may stay true to meaning

but altered words

rise and fall too

you become your

language(s)

and it becomes you

patos pombas

patos pombas

pombas de luto

patos de luto 

no kist
no cairn
a bordo do barco funerário

______________________

chocalhos

Bola de matatabi (silvervine) - alternative matatabi twigs to catnip rattle

  

                Zulu moth cocoon and hide rattles

Sung dynasty small pot

wood and metal rattle

https://larkinthemorning.com/products/ideh-seed-rattles-100-seeds-on-a-belt

 

 

 

 a lua azul Vilar de Andorinho, agosto 20 2024

 

Book of Job 1825 (reprint 1874)

Visual notes

ostraca

rattles

found

objects

made some of praf

and now

I believe 

I might be ready 

to make more

yog(h)urt

Consider spelling's

telling usage -

g, gh in the middle

or

preferring mu to mou. 

You wander through North America, Europe

in py, pa, nightclothes

or begin those within with fe, foe

while above us air, aer

fly in the sky

and  on earth ty(re) ti(re) remain roadworthy.

This preference for

oes to es, aes to es

choosing more letters, or less

may also point to

how we sound spelling -

as in ke or cu.

You begin to perceive

spelling's

magical fluidity,

an ability

to hold 

new and old lightly

for the next century

I

wander from bluebells to Merleau-Ponty

the ontology of good bread

instead of blue moons

and essays

say to myself

receptivity remains

an aim

or an essence

and doesn't lessen

multiplicity

reduplication

Reduplication is found in a wide range of languages and language groups, though its level of linguistic productivity varies. Examples of it can be found at least as far back as Sumerian, where it was used in forming some color terms, e.g. babbar "white", kukku "black".^[2]

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication} 

Copying direction

A reduplicant can copy from either the left edge of a word (left-to-right copying) or from the right edge (right-to-left copying). There is a tendency for prefixing reduplicants to copy left-to-right and for suffixing reduplicants to copy right-to-left:

At 25–50 weeks after birth, typically developing infants go through a stage of reduplicated or canonical babbling (Stark 198, Oller, 1980). Canonical babbling is characterized by repetition of identical or nearly identical consonant-vowel combinations, such as nanana or idididi. It appears as a progression of language development as infants experiment with their vocal apparatus and home in on the sounds used in their native language. Canonical/reduplicated babbling also appears at a time when general rhythmic behavior, such as rhythmic hand movements and rhythmic kicking, appear. Canonical babbling is distinguished from earlier syllabic and vocal play, which has less structure.

 

English has several types of reduplication, ranging from informal expressive vocabulary (the first four forms below) to grammatically meaningful forms (the last two below). See also the alliteration section of the irreversible binomial article for cases like flip-flop, dribs and drabs, etc.

• Rhyming reduplication: Artsy-fartsy, boogie-woogie, okey-dokey, easy-peasy, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, holy moly, hurdy-gurdy, itsy-bitsy, namby-pamby, raggle-taggle, ragtag, razzle-dazzle, super-duper, teenie-weenie, willy-nilly, wingding.
• Exact reduplications: Ack ack, aye-aye, back-to-back, blah-blah, boo-boo, bye-bye, chin-chin, choo-choo, chow-chow, dik-dik, doo-doo, fifty-fifty, gogo, ha ha, half-and-half, honk-honk, housey-housey, juju, klop-klop, mama, muumuu, night-night, no-no, papa, pee-pee, pip-pip, pom-pom, poo-poo, pooh-pooh, putt putt, so-so, ta-ta, there-there, tut-tut, tutu, wah-wah, wee-wee, yo-yo. While in many forms of English, exact reduplications can also be used to emphasise the strength of a word ("He wants it now now"), in South African English, 'now-now' means 'relatively soon'.
  • lexical reduplication: 'Each-each boy take one-one chair.' Indian English
• Ablaut reduplications: In ablaut reduplications, the first vowel is almost always a high vowel (typically ɪ as in hit) and the reduplicated vowel is a low vowel (typically æ as in cat or ɒ as in top). Examples include: bric-a-brac, chit-chat, clip-clop, ding-dong, flimflam, flip-flop, hip-hop, jibber-jabber, kitty-cat, knick-knack, mishmash, ping-pong, pitter-patter, riffraff, sing-song, slipslop, splish-splash, tick-tock, ticky-tacky, tip-top, whiff-whaff, wibble-wobble, wishy-washy, zig-zag. Three-part ablaut sequences are less numerous, but are attested, e.g. tic-tac-toe, bing-bang-boom, bish-bash-bosh, splish-splash-splosh^[13] and "Live, Laugh, Love". Spike Milligan's poem "On the Ning Nang Nong" achieves comic effect by varying the ordering of vowels in such triples: There's a Nong Nang Ning/Where the trees go Ping!.
• Shm-reduplication can be used with most any word; e.g. baby-shmaby, cancer-shmancer and fancy-shmancy. This process is a feature of American English from Yiddish, starting among the American Jews of New York City, then the New York dialec

polite

a conversing child of four

and already asked

to be

fitted

with words

properly

 

______

Swift's directive -

manage niceties

with humor -

bound to be found

in a child

 

bluebell

 asparagus family

 Hyacinthoides  nonscripta        Hyacimthoides  hispanica

How to tell?

English, Irish bells smell

are elongated

opening from the bottom 

ensuring pollination

though clever bees drill holes

in closed blossom bottom to steal nectar

 harebells

Native Scottish  -  Campanula rotifundolia

Virginia bluebells (eastern bluebells, Virginia cowslip, and lungwort oysterleaf)

borage family

found in moist woodlands and river flood plains in eastern North America from New York to Minnesota up into Canada (Ontario and Quebec)

Mertensia virginica

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Royal bluebell

Flower of Australia capitol Territory

Wallenbergia gloriosa (Campanulaceae)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wildflower, common

Wallenbergia stricta

 

edit

verbs formed from dropping ends, David Crystal muses,

"back formations"

seems particularily common in English

a language that absorbs other words

while valuing brevity and

actions as descriptors

and change -

Note words rearranged with a cut

 

 

Discomfit (N) - embarrass someone

Discomfort (N) - uncomfortable 

Uncomfortable (ADJ) - painful, slightly worried or embarrassed, not relaxed and confident,

                                       uneasy, troubled, disturbed

茶 (chá)

 

Tea bowl - Chicken Cup Only 16  known to exist. Ming dynasty, Chenghua emperor reign, 15th c. an act of devotion for the empress mother representing core Chinese values such as continuing the family line and nurturing the young.

 

 

 

 

 

objects misunderstood -

that a good porcelain cup

was used as a pen holder

or 

green tea, hand-rolled

was served colder

than imagined

with ice and sugar

 

I might define 

this kind of ignorance

as invisibility

or resistance

 

built into another manufacturing culture -

 

350 years of

handles, saucers, spoons!

Still, 

it's too soon to tell

if black tea's spell

so deftly

bagged and ticketed

will lift in the

next 5,000 years.

 

what's next?

 

mysterious inclinations -

not for all the ...

Look.

I know you know

true prophecies 

are few

and just aren't my cup of

 

 

 

 

お疲れ様でした 

otsukaresama deshita

you worked hard. thank you.

Nine, now one, species of us. We've begun to realise most likely there are more, not less. 

Still, we've never been many within the millions named or unknown,

and that should be humbling.

 

Of the six editions of Darwin's Origin of Species, I find the final closing paragraph of the first most touching:

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

- darwin online

   

 little thoughts may get you somewhere

Hand-held, unsteady, on purpose

1

I leave the camera on the table,

for the night wanderings.

Through the window a gibbous moon crisps, gold around the edges,

never quite crystal clear.

Dearer to me that way, I say,

grabbing the camera and going outside.

Spinning, I begin capturing late traffic on the hill highways,

house lights, street lamps.

The shook lens turns these

triangular, or links them, strung wires of

thin warmth. Our lit humanity is earthbound,

I think then.

No small wonder when

star interruptions stretch before me,

unmoved by my hand, 

under a moon,

perceptively puddled, untouchably

present, an unaltered pond long

before and after tonight.

____________________

2

Up there.

Cool air.

Second sleep.

 

Suffixes

 over 60% of English words

derived from Latin, french, and Greek

the suffixes

Latin

able/ible	capable/worthy of (used to form adjectives)
ation	used to turn verbs into nouns
ty/ity	used to turn adjectives into nouns
fy/ify	to cause/make/become (used to form verbs)
ment	used to turn verbs into nouns
ic/tic	used to create adjectives
ion	used to turn verbs into nouns
arium	place of study

 Greek

ism

graph

logy 

 

French

-ous, -ity, -tion, -ture, -ment, -ive and -able

 

Native English 

-ish, -ly, -ness, -ship, -some, -less and -ful

 

 

Portuguese (tude, ar, al)

TION	ÇÃO
Information	Informação
Education	Educação
Nation	Nação
Action	Ação
Position	Posição
Situation	Situação
Attention	Atenção
Organization	Organização
Condition	Condição
Administration	Administração
SION	SÃO
Decision	Decisão
Television	Televisão
Discussion	Discussão
Mission	Missão
Version	Versão
Vision	Visão
Expression	Expressão
Session	Sessão
Conclusion	Conclusão
Division	Divisão
ON	ÃO
Million	Milhão
Reason	Razão
Billion	Bilião
Region	Região
Opinion	Opinião
Prison	Prisão
Lesson	Lição
Religion	Religião
Union	União
Comparison	Comparação
TY	DADE
City	Cidade
Community	Comunidade
Society	Sociedade
Activity	Atividade
Opportunity	Oportunidade
Quality	Qualidade
Ability	Habilidade
Authority	Autoridade
Property	Propriedade
Reality	Realidade
LY	MENTE
(adverbs)
Probably	Provavelmente
Finally	Finalmente
Specially	Especialmente
Simply	Simplesmente
Certainly	Certamente
Recently	Recentemente
Exactly	Exatamente
Particularly	Particularmente
Eventually	Eventualmente
Directly	Diretamente
BLE	VEL
Possible	Possível
Responsible	Responsável
Impossible	Impossível
Comfortable	Confortável
Terrible	Terrível
Visible	Visível
Considerable	Considerável
Stable	Estável
Vulnerable	Vulnerável
Incredible	Incrível
BILE	VEL
Automobile	Automóvel
Mobile	Móvel
ILE	IL
Missile	Míssil
Profile	Perfil
Hostile	Hostil
Fragile	Frágil
OUS	OSO /A
Religious	Religioso /a
Famous	Famoso /a
Numerous	Numeroso /a
Nervous	Nervoso /a
Curious	Curiouso /a
Anxious	Ansioso /a
Generous	Generoso /a
Precious	Precioso /a
Mysterious	Misterioso /a
Ambitious	Ambicioso /a
ARY	ÁRIO /A
Necessary	Necessário /a
Primary	Primário /a
Secretary	Secretário /a
Salary	Salário
Extraordinary	Extraordinário /a
Literary	Literário /a
Temporary	Temporário /a
Anniversary	Aniversário /a
Secondary	Secundário /a
Revolutionary	Revolucionário /a
ORY	ÓRIO /A
Story	Estória
History	História
Memory	Memória
Theory	Teoria
Category	Categoria
Victory	Vitória
Territory	Território
Laboratory	Laboratório
Regulatory	Regulatório
Glory	Glória
CY	CIA
Agency	Agência
Democracy	Democracia
Emergency	Emergência
Frequency	Frequência
Tendency	Tendência
Efficiency	Eficiência
Presidency	Presidência
IZE	IZAR
Realize	Realizar
Organize	Organizar
Emphasize	Enfatizar
Characterize	Caracterizar
Minimize	Minimizar
Specialize	Especializar
Utilize	Utilizar
Authorize	Autorizar
ATE	ADO /A
(adjectives)
Private	Privado /a
Appropriate	Apropriado /a
Separate	Separado /a
Desperate	Desesperado /a
Moderate	Moderado /a
Adequate	Adequado /a
Delicate	Delicado /a
Elaborate	Elaborado /a
ANCE	ÂNCIA
Distance	Distância
Importance	Importância
Circumstance	Circunstância
Substance	Substância
Significance	Significância
Instance	Instância
Tolerance	Tolerância
ANCE	ÊNCIA
Appearance	Aparência
Assistance	Assistência
Resistance	Resistência
ENCE	ÊNCIA
Experience	Experiência
Evidence	Evidência
Science	Ciência
Conference	Conferência
Violence	Violência
Audience	Audiência
Influence	Influência
Intelligence	Inteligência
Consequence	Consequência
Reference	Referência
ENCE	ÊNÇA
Difference	Diferença
Presence	Presença
Sentence	Sentença
AGE	AGEM
Image	Imagem
Language	Linguagem
Message	Mensagem
Advantage	Vantagem
Percentage	Percentagem
Passage	Passagem
Garage	Garagem
Courage	Coragem
AL
National	Nacional
Real	Real
Social	Social
Local	Local
Federal	Federal
International	Internacional
Special	Especial
Official	Oficial
Personal	Pessoal
Material	Material
AR
(adjectives)
Similar	Similar
Popular	Popular
Particular	Particular
Nuclear	Nuclear
Familiar	Familiar
Solar	Solar
Spectacular	Espetacular
Secular	Secular
OR	OR /A
Director	Diretor /a
Doctor	Doutor /a
Author	Autor /a
Color	Cor
Factor	Fator
Professor	Professor /a
Senior	Sénior
Editor	Editor /a
Actor	Ator
Investor	Investidor /a
IST	ISTA
(nouns)
Artist	Artista
List	Lista
Scientist	Cientista
Journalist	Jornalista
Tourist	Turista
Specialist	Especialista
Activist	Ativista
Terrorist	Terrorista
Economist	Economista
Feminist	Feminista
ISM	ISMO
Criticism	Criticismo
Terrorism	Terrorismo
Mechanism	Mecanismo
Racism	Racismo
Organism	Organismo
Journalism	Jornalismo
Tourism	Turismo
ANT	ANTE
Important	Importante
Significant	Significante
Participant	Participante
Restaurant	Restaurante
Immigrant	Imigrante
Constant	Constante
Giant	Gigante
Distant	Distante
Brilliant	Brilhante
Dominant	Dominante
ENT	ENTE
(adjectives)
Different	Diferente
Recent	Recente
Independent	Independente
Present	Presente
Excellent	Excelente
Consistent	Consistente
Permanent	Permanente
Apparent	Aparente
Innocent	Inocente
Confident	Confidente
(nouns)
President	Presidente
Patient	Paciente
Agent	Agente
Client	Cliente
Resident	Residente
Accident	Acidente
Component	Componente
Incident	Incidente
Present	Presente
Ingredient	Ingrediente
ENT	ENTO
(nouns)
Moment	Momento
Development	Desenvolvimento
Event	Evento
Movement	Movimento
Treatment	Tratamento
Investment	Investimento
Argument	Argumento
Department	Departamento
Element	Elemento
Apartment	Apartamento
IC	ICO /A
Public	Público /a
Music	Músico /a
Economic	Económico /a
Democratic	Democrático /a
Specific	Específico /a
Basic	Básico /a
Critic	Crítico /a
Academic	Académico /a
Plastic	Plástico /a
Domestic	Doméstico /a
ID	IDO /A
Solid	Sólido /a
Stupid	Estúpido /a
Rapid	Rápido /a
Acid	Ácido /a
Fluid	Fluído /a
Liquid	Líquido /a
Valid	Válido /a
IVE	IVO /A
(nouns)
Executive	Executivo /a
Perspective	Perspetiva
Alternative	Alternativa
Objective	Objetivo
Incentive	Incentivo
Narrative	Narrativa
Motive	Motivo
(adjectives)
Positive	Positivo /a
Native	Nativo /a
Active	Ativo /a
Negative	Negativo /a
Massive	Massivo /a
Creative	Criativo /a
Competitive	Competitivo /a
Agressive	Agressivo /a
Alternative	Alternativo /a
Attractive	Atrativo /a
FY	FICAR
Identify	Identificar
Testify	Testificar
Justify	Justificar
Qualify	Qualificar
Modify	Modificar
Classify	Classificar
Specify	Especificar
AN	ANO /A
American	Americano /a
Human	Humano /a
Republican	Republicano /a
African	Africano /a
Indian	Indiano /a
Urban	Urbano /a
Ocean	Oceano
Mexican	Mexicano /a
Veteran	Veterano /a
Italian	Italiano /a
TUDE
Attitude	Atitude
Magnitude	Magnitude

 

gaggles, for reference (14th c and onward)

an assembly of monks or nuns, a congregation game

explained in plurals and continual -

a gaggle of geese

a colony of minks

an Anglo-Saxon herd or swarm

 

precursers to

 

a muster  of  peacocks

an unkindness of ravens

a charm of goldfinches

a watch of nightengales

 

diligence of messengers

sentence of judges

prudence of vicars

non-patience of wives

 

an excess of

an abundance

before more (dis)appearances

 

 

 

 

potato

 peeler, her

or he 

a fine example of

information(s)

Sliding, a sliding between

numeracy, or numeracies

"I contain multitudes" the poet assured

that words matter

are signs, signals

of lineage, 

are an aging of

matter,

material witness(es)

to the mutabilty of

the untold

uncountable change(s)

in living language(s)

(14th c.)

 mending

 

one part, two

 

you grow together

watering the plants

amazing how quickly they shift from heat to cool

the leaf color deepens, fleshes out

their skin a seep

drinking the air

as their roots drink wet

I dare to hope for autumn mid-August

 

 

pensamento luminoso, um glizante ou um pingo doce  da vida

 

 

 

I wake up into myself

 

start the day this way

a little damp and sleepy

but aware that this is there

a clarity of containment

I've the pleasure to spill 

outward 

into the world

drop by drop 

today

 

 

stars, with astigmatism

Sleepless,

alone,

on the rooftop, 

my glasses bedside,

I've become

long-sighted.

Above me

might be infinity.

My night sky eye, sinking into centric sprinklings of stars,

punches into darkness.

I'm shivering slightly

as another clarity arises, rod spun, real, and light years deep.

dialect

 Spare a thought for the words that never get into dictionaries.

- David Crystal, The story of English In 100 Words

___________________________

1

value judgement

subset, part of, but not always mutually intelligible

pronounced differences or

changes in vocabulary and grammar

often particular to region or zone or

people who alone may know it

potential to exclude often arbitrary,

intention to survive often essential

___________________________

2

dialect the word

heard it appeared in English language

in the sixteenth century

or perhaps

an earlier instance

when I say

born in a boosy

 

A 14th century farm arse is an animal's

and the 14th century too gave us

a bum, a buttock, or a butt,

all not rude.

To be polite,

a 16th century

backside

was a posterior.

 

In the 18th century,

we had bottoms, behinds,

or borrowed words, gluteus maximus and derrière.

No 19th century ass was impolite, but poor arse

appears here to shock.

And now?

So many rude, and not, arses and asses to plow through.

a word

I wish to have 

a word with you.

Just one

no,

or was it

nevermore?

 the first thoughts of consciousness -

water, write.

the mist lifts from the hollows and hills, too quick to capture.

Listen. The sounds of muffled tires on slowed roads, metal whistles as a train breaks, a bell,

telling you it's coming, it's coming.

pensamentos

もったいない !

motannai!

そんなに!

son'nani!

so much!

やりなおさない

yarinaosanai

do not start over

__________________

glaucus

(blind trees)

have I forgotten

the customs of my family,

those sturdy trees,

planted in,

well-watered,

fed?

What has led me to leave them

 so far from me, and to stay away?

____________________

Trumped, the Red Queen

could be mean.

She blames her big head

instead of her small mind.

She's the kind of woman warped by lies.

She donned kingswear, but her he is trumped too

and hasn't any clothes

to cover them.

_______________________ 

Harbinger -

why, he, a parvenu,

accuses you

of possessing,

for example,

qualities, conditions

often presumed characteristic of

ignorance, unripeness, a too niceness.

However.

Realise not knowing,

being unaware,

aren't arbiters of

anything.

Of the unknown transformed into this -

a woman can remain

misunderstood.

I favor verbs of being over pronouns -

Is, am, are enough. 

____________________

I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memories self, that shapes the elaborate shell of the mollusc and the child in the womb, and that teaches the birds to make their nest; and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.

- WBY, The Tembling of the Veil

 

V e i  l ,  v a l e  ( e n c o b r i r )

 

Gaia Madalena

 

have to stop the world before it gets much older

lugar este lugar este lugar

Ratcliffe came to mind

place, time,

the name of a poet 

of the sea -

and temporality

________________________

pen again

friend said when you begin

do so in this life

_________________________

Looking at

a black cat,

the runt that remained small.

At dusk

she visits 

to eat my tall grasses.

lymantria dispar

here

Found mythologies 

old and new

you invent things

noting 

what 

you do not know