Greenpeace Brasil sobrevoa a Amazônia e flagra o avanço do fogo sobre a floresta!

Somente no mês de julho foram 5.373 focos de calor e no ano já são mais de 12.906 Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia. O Greenpeace realizou sobrevoos no …

Greenpeace Brasil sobrevoa a Amazônia e flagra o avanço do fogo sobre a floresta!

Poland declares that household cats are now an invasive species | Here & Now (Me: Headline is misleading – they are referring to cats allowed to roam outside – not indoor cats.)

“I think a lot of it really needs to be kind of a cultural change,” she says, “where people understand the impact of their cat, and that keeping it indoors is something that every cat owner can do as part of their effort to make the environment safer and better for everybody.” Source: Poland declares that household cats are now an invasive species | Here & Now

LONELINESS

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Đinh Trường Chinh

Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm


LONELINESS

.

loneliness is brutal

dusk failed to interpret the rain

I’m awake amongst the earthy smell

my fifth coffee

on the shiny wood surface

.

loneliness is without repose

no bough no shade

I lay down to sleep

allow myself to drift through the streets

I’m cloaked in black

the poem in my head is an umbrella

shielding me from the broken pieces of a storm

the falling raindrops from my eyes .

.

in the end

loneliness will be its own entombment

Chet baker will whisk it along .

.

leaving the brown wooden table behind

crossing the road

I will buy the lottery ticket

I will win an island  

a solace amidst the ocean

there I will plant a copse of loneliness

there I will live

to never…

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