TE19 Iberian Adventure

Albert Bonjoch

with petals on their backs (..., bromeliads) sprouted from the hillsides (..., hydrangeas) and filled up the gardens (..., gardenias) with pollinated feelings (..., carnations) for the euphoria of the living (..., chrysanthemums) in the wake of the sober coffin (..., coca flower) a constant polychromatic stream of florescence (… and traveller’s joy) caressing the cheeks of the Andean lands. Beside the river, orchid men, gladioli peasants and mournful night-jasmine ladies emerged recalling the burial of the weed that manured the soil with corpses from a war-like artificial winter.

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