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Alfonsina Storni
Sunday, September 29, 2013VOY A DORMIR ( Alfonsina Storni , May 29, 1892 – October 25, 1938)
Dientes de flores, cofia de rocío,
manos de hierbas, tú, nodriza fina,
tenme prestas las sábanas terrosas
y el edredón de musgos escardados.
Voy a dormir, nodriza mía, acuéstame.
Ponme una lámpara a la cabecera;
una constelación; la que te guste;
todas son buenas; bájala un poquito.
Déjame sola: oyes romper los brotes...
te acuna un pie celeste desde arriba
y un pájaro te traza unos compases
para que olvides... Gracias. Ah, un encargo:
si él llama nuevamente por teléfono
le dices que no insista, que he salido...
Teeth of flowers, hairnet of dew,
hands of herbs, you, perfect wet nurse,
prepare the earthly sheets for me
and the down quilt of weeded moss
I am going to sleep, my nurse, put me to bed.
Set a lamp at my headboard;
a constellation; whatever you like;
all are good: lower it a bit.
Leave me alone:
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4 Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938)
Evans, Jo. "4 Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938)". A Companion to Latin American Women Writers, edited by Brígida M. Pastor, Lloyd Hughes Davies, Nina Scott, Brígida M. Pastor, Joanne Crow, Joanna Evans, Fiona J. Mackintosh, Stephen M Hart, Nuala Finnegan, Teresa Hurley, John McCulloch, Sharon Magnarelli, Philip Swanson, Denise L. Dupont and Claire Taylor, Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, 2012, pp. 69-82. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781846158308-005
Evans, J. (2012). 4 Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938). In B. Pastor, L. Davies, N. Scott, B. Pastor, J. Crow, J. Evans, F. Mackintosh, S. Hart, N. Finnegan, T. Hurley, J. McCulloch, S. Magnarelli, P. Swanson, D. Dupont & C. Taylor (Ed.), A Companion to Latin American Women Writers (pp. 69-82). Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781846158308-005
Evans, J. 2012. 4 Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938). In: Pastor, B., Davies, L., Scott, N., Pastor, B., Crow, J., Evans, J., Mackintosh, F.,
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Tú me quieres blanca - You want me white - Alfonsina Storni
Saturday, October 09, 2021
| Rosa 'Margaret Merril' & R. 'Susan Williams- Ellis' 9 October 2021 |
It seems that as fall gets colder, the roses I may have considered delicate are not so. There are Roses R. ‘Margaret Merril’ and R. ‘Susan Williams-Ellis’ taking their time to wish me goodbye until next year. Margaret Merril was her favourite white rose and while I purchased R. 'Susan Williams- Ellis' when she was alive, Rosemary never saw her achieve her prime as this English Rose did this 2021.
Like everything else that surrounds me in my little Kits home, these roses remind me of that other rose (how could it be that I never connected the rose part of her name?), my Rosemary.
Rosemary was always pleasantly thin and her grace hid the fact that she was a hardy kind of woman. For our second daughter’s birth (Hilary) she arranged the then accepted procedure of inducing birth. She arranged