AMAZING GRACE

Amazing Grace

In the forget 

life is here
composted
compounded confused
geometric tantric fields of sky
landscape dream cloud
in elephant shape

sliding away (as clouds tend to)
from three generations
of women and many of their men
waltzing to Cohen
and to Lorca

amazing grace light green of spring
swell of pregnant poppies
tight solar plexus
creeping happily

in the forget

dance of summer

here
is wonder in waiting
willing wish

life wanting to stay.

Nossa Senhora das Graças

dos esquecimentos

da vida aqui
compostada
confusa complicada

em planos geometricos

tântricos das paisagens do céu
em nuvens de elefantes

deslizando (como só as nuvens sabem)
por três gerações de mulheres
e muitos de seus homens
valsando ao som de Lorca
e de Cohen

Nossa Senhora das Graças
luz clara verde de primavera
das papoulas grávidas

do apêrto na boca do coração

se insinuando
nessa felicidade do esquecer
da dança do verão

aqui
na surprêsa do esperar
do querer saber
da vida querendo ficar

ASCLEPIAS AND MONARCH BUTTERFLIES

Dilemas do norte e do sul

Milkweed in winter, Maryland, USA

Seeds by the wind

Preparations

 

Milkweed (Asclepias sp.) – the only plant where monarch butterflies lay their eggs, and so, essential for the Monarch’s survival. Seeds are wind-pollinated, pods are silky smooth inside, rough and edgy on the outside. Destruction of habitat where the plant grows, threatens the butterfly in North America.

Monarch in Brasil

Monarch in hometown

The only monarch of the South American summer

In Brasil, algodaozinho do campo (asclepias currasavica) is used as a medicinal plant. This fact, combined with habitat destruction, also threatens the survival of the Monarch butterfly there.

Compositions

Futures

Aliens