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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Adjacent

A lot of Spanish music is flamenco-adjacent. In other words, it can be flamenquified easily.  Take "Anda jaleo." (Please take it.) There are constant flamenco versions of it, though it is a popular song, not part of the flamenco repertoire (originally). 

It is interesting that I am unable to find any trace of "Anda jaleo" before Lorca. In some sense, it is Lorca's song, though I'm sure he did not write it.  

Friday, December 12, 2025

Simile

Like a kid writing 
number on hand

it will wash off
before or after

calling the number
writing it down somewhere else

•••

Here there are four options
like a Rae Armantrout poem
in which there are
four lines

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Thursday, December 11, 2025

I hear from an old friend...

"I miss our correspondences. They were always a highlight back in the day. Your intelligence and generosity always lifted me." 


 There's one Bousoño points out in Carnero and Gil de Biedma, maybe in Cerunda: the fourteen syllable line divided into 7 + 7, with one of the lines shortened to 6. 

Now we have units of 5, 6, and 7. 

"en aquellos momentos / de miedo y esperanzas"

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

five six seven

 If we have a 11 syllable line that dives up into 5 and 6.

Then a seven syllable line. 

The we have a nice asymmetrical pattern of 5, 6, 7. Góngora does this a lot:  

"Desnudo el joven, cuanto ya el vestido

océano ha bebido..."