Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;

I lift my lids and all is born again.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,

And arbitrary blackness gallops in:

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:

Exit seraphim and Satan's men:

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,

But I grow old and I forget your name.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;

At least when spring comes they roar back again.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Sylvia Plath

Mad Girl's Love Song

Los besos comunicantes

(fragmento)

Un momento, señora, déjeme que le explique. Los poetas hablan del beso de las diosas, los tahúres del beso de la suerte, los lascivos del beso a la francesa, pero curiosamente nadie hace comentarios sobre el más virulento: ese beso que no conforme con transmitir amor, deseo, saliva, sudor, sangre, partículas de pollo y piezas de amalgama, comunica penurias y aflicciones ancestrales, de modo que al así besarse la pareja se funde en una comunión antigua, y cuando menos piensan ya beben de una lava que por siglos estuvo cocinándose. Quiero decir, señora, que hay besos que corroen las entrañas, que duelen como latigazos en la piel de Cristo, que se nos clavan en la carne hasta infectarnos cada molécula de sangre. Besos con llanto y restos de tortura, con heridas y pústulas, con hambre y ambición y lujuria ultraterrena, besos con todo el peso del Viejo Testamento. 

Xavier Velasco

El Materialismo Histérico

holding hands

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love 

los peces

Alessandro   Baricco, City

Julia Randall

LIP SERVICE

LICK LINE #35

LICK LINE #39

LICK LINE #20

LICK LINE #27

LICK LINE #23

Él no lo sabe, pero está loco por ella.

Alessandro Baricco, City

capitán Zissou

THE LIFE AQUATIC

The Age of Silence

The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that could not be said in the endless array of movements possible with the fine bones of the fingers and wrists. The gestures were complex and subtle, involving a delicacy of motion that has since been lost completely. 

During the Age of Silence, people communicated more, not less. Basic survival demanded that the hands were almost never still, and so it was only during sleep (and sometimes not even then) that people were not saying something or other. No distinction was made between the gestures of language and the gestures of life. The labor of building a house, say, or preparing a meal was no less an expression than making the sign for I love you or I feel serious. When a hand was used to shield one’s face when frightened by a loud noise something was being said, and when fingers were used to pick up what someone else had dropped something was being said; and even when the hands were at rest, that, too, was saying something. Naturally, there were misunderstandings. There were times when a finger might have been lifted to scratch a nose, and if casual eye contact was made with one’s lover just then, the lover might accidentally take it to be the gesture, not at all dissimilar, for Now I realize I was wrong to love you. These mistakes were heartbreaking. And yet, because people knew how easily they could happen, because they didn’t go round with the illusion that they understood perfectly the things other people said, they were used to interrupting each other to ask if they’d understood correctly. Sometimes these misunderstandings were even desirable, since they gave people a reason to say, Forgive me, I was only scratching my nose. Of course I know I’ve always been right to love you. Because of the frequency of these mistakes, over time the gesture for asking forgiveness evolved into the simplest form. Just to open your palm was to say: Forgive me."

"If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms – if you find yourself at a loss for what to do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignness of your own body – it’s because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what’s inside and what’s outside, was so much less. It’s not that we’ve forgotten the language of gestures entirely. The habit of moving our hands while we speak is left over from it. Clapping, pointing, giving the thumbs-up, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together. And at night, when it’s too dark to see, we find it necessary to gesture on each other’s bodies to make ourselves understood.” 

The History of Love (fragmento)

Nicole Krauss

The Genius of the crowd

                                                                                                         Charles Bukowski

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average

human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it

and the best at hate are those who preach love

and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god

those who preach peace do not have peace

those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers

beware the knowers

beware those who are always reading books

beware those who either detest poverty

or are proud of it

beware those quick to praise

for they need praise in return

beware those who are quick to censor

they are afraid of what they do not know

beware those who seek constant crowds for

they are nothing alone

beware the average man the average woman

beware their love, their love is average

seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred

there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you

to kill anybody

not wanting solitude

not understanding solitude

they will attempt to destroy anything

that differs from their own

not being able to create art

they will not understand art

they will consider their failure as creators

only as a failure of the world

not being able to love fully

they will believe your love incomplete

and then they will hate you

and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond

like a knife

like a mountain

like a tiger

like hemlock

their finest art

Jeff Koons

Pink bow

Sacred heart

Cake

Balloon dog (blue)

Balloon dog

7

Toco tu boca, con un dedo toco el borde de tu boca, voy dibujándola como si saliera de mi mano, como si por primera vez tu boca se entreabriera, y me basta cerrar los ojos para deshacerlo todo y recomenzar, hago nacer cada vez la boca que deseo, la boca que mi mano elige y te dibuja en la cara, una boca elegida entre todas, con soberana libertad elegida por mí para dibujarla con mi mano por tu cara, y que por un azar que no busco comprender coincide exactamente con tu boca que sonríe por debajo de la que mi mano te dibuja.

     Me miras, de cerca me miras, cada vez más de cerca y entonces jugamos al cíclope, nos miramos cada vez más de cerca y nuestros ojos se agrandan, se acercan entre sí, se superponen y los cíclopes se miran, respirando confundidos, las bocas se encuentran y luchan tibiamente, mordiéndose con los labios, apoyando apenas la lengua en los dientes, jugando en sus recintos donde un aire pesado va y viene con un perfume viejo y un silencio. Entonces mis manos buscan hundirse en tu pelo, acariciar lentamente la profundidad de tu pelo mientras nos besamos como si tuviéramos la boca llena de flores o de peces, de movimientos vivos, de fragancia oscura. Y si nos mordemos el dolor es dulce, y si nos ahogamos en un breve y terrible absorber simultáneo del aliento, esa instantánea muerte es bella. Y hay una sola saliva y un solo sabor a fruta madura, y yo te siento temblar contra mí como una luna en el agua.

Cortázar

Rayuela,  Capítulo 7

Sorolla

niña

idyl

hora

desnudo de mujer

Asma es Amor

Asma es amor

           Gonzalo Rojas

Más que por la A de amor estoy por la A

de asma, y me ahogo

de tu no aire, ábreme

alta mía única anclada ahí, no es bueno

el avión de palo en el que yaces con

vidrio y todo en esas tablas precipicias, adentro

de las que ya no estás, tu esbeltez

ya no está, tus grandes

pies hermosos, tu espinazo

de yegua de Faraón, y es tan difícil

este resuello, tú

me entiendes: asma

es amor.

Flor Garduño

A volar

Amazona

Este es mi gallo

Dear child

As The Sparrow

                                   Charles Bukowski

To give life you must take life,

and as our grief falls flat and hollow

upon the billion-blooded sea

I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed

with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures

lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow

did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be

young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage

to love. 

AlexKanevsky

J.F.H. with her Portrait

Twins bath

K.B. in her bathroom

Lunch

J.W.

déjame soñar

Ocurre que la realidad es superior a los sueños. En vez de pedir "déjame soñar", se debería decir: "déjame mirar".

Juega uno a vivir.

Jaime Sabines

Eric Fischl

the bed, the chair, jetlag, 2000

the welcome, 2007

bathroom scene 1, 2002

que rico que es el azul

*

quizás me ves...

Autonecrología
Jaime Sabines

Te quiero porque tienes las partes de la mujer

en el lugar preciso

y estás completa. No te falta ni un pétalo,

ni un olor, ni una sombra.

Colocada en tu alma,

dispuesta a ser rocío en la yerba del mundo,

leche de luna en las oscuras hojas.

Quizás me ves,

tal vez, acaso un día,

en una lámpara apagada,

en un rincón del cuarto donde duermes,

soy una mancha, un punto en la pared, alguna raya

que tus ojos, sin ti, se quedan viendo.

Quizás me reconoces

como una hora antigua

cuando a solas preguntas, te interrogas

con el cuerpo cerrado y sin respuesta.

Soy una cicatriz que ya no existe,

un beso ya lavado por el tiempo,

un amor y otro amor que ya enterraste.

Pero estás en mis manos y me tienes

y en tus manos estoy, brasa, ceniza,

para secar tus lágrimas que lloro.

¿En qué lugar, en dónde, a qué deshoras

me dirás que te amo? Esto es urgente

porque la eternidad se nos acaba.

Recoge mi cabeza. Guarda el brazo

con que amé tu cintura. No me dejes

en medio de tu sangre en esa toalla.

été

Sensation

Par les soirs bleus d'été, j'irai dans les sentiers,

Picoté par les blés, fouler l'herbe menue :

Rêveur, j'en sentirai la fraîcheur à mes pieds.

Je laisserai le vent baigner ma tête nue.

Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien :

Mais l'amour infini me montera dans l'âme,

Et j'irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohémien,

Par la Nature, - heureux comme avec une femme.

Arthur Rimbaud