Hedgehog
11-17-2009, 15:02
Dahlias were discovered by the Spanish in Mexico at around the same time as potatoes, tomatoes and maize. The Spanish tried eating all of them, but the dahlias were disgusting.
Sea foam fluttered like birds' wings and two salt hills were left on the beach, and all the sea long was lake-upon-lake with sailboats tiny as a thumb, their colors like bubbles of soap. DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH (1936 - 2005) Israeli poet Hills of Salt (1978) Tr.Chana Bloch
Sea foam fluttered like birds' wings and two salt hills were left on the beach, and all the sea long was lake-upon-lake with sailboats tiny as a thumb, their colors like bubbles of soap. DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH (1936 - 2005) Israeli poet Hills of Salt (1978) Tr.Chana Bloch