Thinking of ice on this hot day

  “Water has a brain. No one knows this.”    Christian Steinbach What’s the context?  It’s from an interview done by The New Yorker about this man, nicknamed “the magic ice man.” Here’s a bit of it: It’s often said that Alpine skiing is an outdoor sport, a no-duh remark intended to account for the

Breaking the heart of the air

  High Summer     painting by Claire Christinel   More wondrous August poems on this very hot evening…   Summer BY CARLO BETOCCHI TRANSLATED BY GEOFFREY BROCK And it grows, the vain summer, even for us with our bright green sins:   behold the dry guest, the wind, as it stirs up quarrels among magnolia boughs