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2016, 7*, apartment, baby, breeze, brother, cactus, children, cotton, family, father, Granada, laughing, meal, passing, portrait, running, sound, streets, sun, Sunday, talking, tragedy, uncle, walls
familiasyncopation
down
down in the narrow streetways of the Gran Realjo of always sunny Granada
clak
vacuum clak whines
quickly clak scrapescrape around
the ap – clak – ment
light cotton cloth hangs
back into the room
hangs
relents
hangs hangs
family
sits
variably
for the
meal
father’s sentence – chairscrape –
ri – co – ch – e – t – s
around four walls
in warm and all-inclusive statemental embrace
and continues – despite interruptions – all the while
children lament a chasing game
of plakplak sandals
with surprising tragedy
in the street below an uncle
pushing the baby
half on the pebbles from time to time
“ahahahaha … herrr”
talks staccato with his brother
light cotton cloth
billowing out, not quite
not quite
snagging
on the cactus
leans back into the room
the title runs together the Spanish word for family (which ends in the useful prefix ‘a’ which links) with syncopation to provide a gloriously arrhythmic portrait of a family meeting for midday dinner on a Sunday through the wide open windows of the apartiemento; I’m not even sure if all the noises I heard were from the same family, but that doesn’t matter, they were, they were;
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
breeze wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J Redford – Simon Upon The Downs
family wormhole: ‘field of corn …’
father wormhole: Doctor Strange III – the needs of billions
passing wormhole: industrial estate
sound wormhole: … swap round
streets & walls wormhole: passersby
sun wormhole: woven-through
Sunday wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford – Olly
talking wormhole: sleep now
uncle wormhole: Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters] – from arm to nature, doing nothing
Bonnie Marshall said:
A joy to read…think…experience.
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m lewis redford said:
thank you, Bonnie
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