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I SIT AT MY DESK: Love Poem, by Kennet Rexroth

I SIT AT MY DESK “I sit at my desk. What can I write to you? Sick with love, I long to see you in the flesh. I can only write, “I love you. I love you. I love you. “ Love cuts through my heart And tears my vitals. Spasms of longing suffocate me And will not stop.” (Kennet …

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KIRCHBERG, AUSTRIA: Still one last dip in white, skiing until late spring

Near Kitzbuhel – in western Tyrol – the Austrian Alps offer you particular places, where to ski at 1800 meters high, in the woods of Ehrenbachhöhe, next to the old wooden barns. You should move in a worldly dimension reduced, going to Kirchberg, an alpine village that looks straight out of an old postcard. This small baroque jewel, above a …

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UNITED COLOURS OF WISDOM – Inside the eddies of life, discovering the shape of passion, without moving the grass

HARMONY – A. Blok: Telling those who did not live, play fake and tragic harm. Discover a harmony, in discordant reel being. LOSS – Hakim Sanai: Why did you lose to think about the shape of what is? Why sighs of passion, for what is not? Of these two things, make it one, and swallowed it like honey. Then, netted …

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FRANCESCO UBERTINI (Bacchiacca): The master of color combinations, in Renaissance Florence

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ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM, BREATH: Contemporary Indian Poetry

BREATH “Breath stranger, ancestor, friend that does not leave you anything but that, a brand of air on the skin. Advises that nothing there is respectable, in a set of family, when the doors of the cabinet are closed. Advises that this land wild and naked desire, is simply, or not so simply, body. “ (Arundhathi Subramanian)

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TIBERIO DI ASSISI (1470/1524): Shades of Renaissance Pinturicchio and Perugino, in Rome, Assisi and Perugia

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AMICO ASPERTINI (1474/1552): The eclectic Italian painter who painted the Renaissance with both hands

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SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN: Mark Strand, Keeping things whole

KEEPING THINGS WHOLE “In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. The move to keep things whole. “ (Mark …

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ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: Xenophon and 10,000 adventurers of weapons, in a timeless book, Anabasis

A man born in Athens, an extraordinary reporter, tells the march towards the interior of an unknown world. In the pages of his book, not only facts relating to ancient Greece, but the concerns – along with the strengths and weaknesses – of men. Timeless, the nuances of varied humanity tell us about the nightmare in impossible environments, the heartbreaking …

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UNITED COLOURS OF SMILE – Hanging on a Rope, float in the divine, in the madness and joy

FLOAT – A. Gérecz: In your smile floated the moon, and I wanted to climb. Your smile was only human, and I pick it up I curled in. THREE REALITY – Ramayana: There are three things real, and they are God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two beyond our understanding, we must do what we can with the …

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