You are everywhere

La Adelita

ADELITAS

Corrridos

En lo alto de la abrupta serranía
acampado se encontraba un regimiento
y una musa que valiente los seguía
locamente enamorada del sargento.


In the heights of a steep mountainous range
a regiment was encamped
and a bright woman bravely follows them
madly in love with the sergeant.

Popular entre la tropa era Adelita
la mujer que el sargento idolatraba
y además de ser valiente era bonita
que hasta el mismo Coronel la respetaba.


Popular among the troop was Adelita
the woman that the sergeant idolized
and besides being brave she was pretty
that even the Colonel respected her.

Y se oía, que decía, aquel que tanto la quería:

Y si Adelita quisiera ser mi novia
y si Adelita fuera mi mujer
le compraría un vestido de seda
para llevarla a bailar al cuartel.


And it was heard, that he, who loved her so much, said:

If Adelita would like to be my girlfriend
If Adelita would be my wife
I'd buy her a silk dress
to take her to the barrack's dance.

Y si Adelita se fuera con otro
la seguiría por tierra y por mar
si por mar en un buque de guerra
si por tierra en un tren militar.


If Adelita would leave with another man
I'd follow her by land and sea
by sea in a war ship
by land in a military train.

(For E & C two remarkable
women of courage & strength)

Touch This Space

You just reached on in

and put a string of lights

right around my heart.

Today's Gratitude List

11.49am Friday 13th

Thank you dear life for another day

Thank you light - you show me

Thank you eyes Im lost without you

Thank you bike your fucking great

Thank you E you are exceptionally funny

Thank you river my refuge

Thank you rain; pray do fall

Thank you R you have reached me

Thank you love - all I need

Thank you photographs keepers of memory

Thank you trust I have

Thank you hands for touch

Thank you this moment

Thank you I am free

120 Degrees Fahrenheit

Saturday-4.22pm-Fairfield


Sunday-8.03am-Fairfield

Orange&blue-Joni&you

A Case Of You

Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, constant in the darkness
Wheres that at?
If you want me Ill be in the bar

On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue tv screen light
I drew a map of canada
Oh canada
And your face sketched on it twice

Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh Id still be on my feet

Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
Im frightened by the devil
And Im drawn to those ones that aint afraid
I remember that time that you told me, you said
Love is touching souls
Surely you touched mine
Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time

Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
And you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
Still Id be on my feet
And still be on my feet

I met a woman
She had a mouth like yours
She knew your life
She knew your devils and your deeds
And she said
Color go to him, stay with him if you can
Oh but be prepared to bleed
Oh but you are in my blood youre my holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter, bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
Still Id be on my feet
Id still be on my feet

Lyrics by Joni Mitchell
(From Blue 1971)

Horses

Fight or flight

dust over the range

fear threading through

those withers that shudder

as you bolt and buck your

way over the range with no

shelter in sight the sound

of thunder flashes through

your eyes at either side

pinned not blinkered

untethered wild clean

kicking and bolting and bucking

freedom

letting fear

stand still in its tracks

trust my dear

Awakening

In Utero

11.20am - Harper Ray Mullens takes her first breath of air.

Today's Gratitude List

7.32am
Friday

Thank you for another day

thank you for dear life

thank you for my lungs

thank you for the river

thank you my friends

thanks mum

thank you for the colour I see

thank you eyes

thank you I can feel

thank you scrrumbum Riff

thank you words

Sorcery

It was a smoke thick room
with a long bar reflecting stars
a neon moon hung drunk on her back
a long time past
since she struck a cord

Drenched in a stench
of sweating leather and alchemy
the rusty nail boiled through her
when about to burst right open
they did collide

Too late now to conceal your wings
in a glance they receded
amethyst - slumped on your elbows
beauty held in your hands
we had touched before
through a space in between

I remember you my love


image from here