Pages and words
Continuing the theme of six, your prompt today will be chosen by you. We want you to pick up a book or a magazine or a newspaper and go to a page number that is a multiple of six and chose a word from that page that is also a multiple of six. For example, you could go to page eighteen and choose the twenty-fourth word. Make your number decisions before you open the book and stick to your decisions. Tell us where your word is from and show us what it sparked in you with one or more hellokoos. We can’t wait to see them.
The seed has been sown
In the red earth, a longing
To be somewhere else
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Page 6 word 24 in Annie Proulx’s Postcards is “the” but the word after is “seed”, so I took that. I’m only on page 29. My hellokoo reflects my experience of the book so far.
Page 120 word 18 in Federico Garcia Lorca - Poesía completa bought in Madrid following my intention of reading poetry in Spanish.
Word seguimos - we keep going, we continue, we follow, we are still
insuperable
seguimos adelante
brío y garra
insuperable
we continue, keep going
verve and conviction
I find it very difficult to translate poetry, even my own.