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sfmacaws

Feb 27, 2007, 3:28 PM

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Ode to Mérida

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I loved this article on Yucatan Living called Mérida Moments and thought some of you would enjoy it too.

http://www.yucatanliving.com/...l/merida-moments.htm

I think partly I loved it because the writing, in english, has that Mexican spanish cadence to it and the sentences last the whole paragraph. Here's my favorite paragraph-sentence.

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And then there’s that indescribable high when the red grease slips out from between two ends of the folded tortilla and drips onto your hand just as the almost-sweet spices of cochinita are taken over by the intensity that spreads across your tongue like a habanero prairie fire and blossoms into your throat like a bright red hibiscus of pain.

Almost sounds like a translation, or a poem, it brings the sensation to you.

Jonna - Mérida, Yucatán

Ron Pickering W3FJW

Feb 27, 2007, 4:43 PM

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And this is my favorite. Reminds me of me thousands of miles away and many more years ago than I care to admit to.

Thanks Jonna.

Or that wonderful Latin-American phenomenon of lovers in the park, when each bench is occupied as if it were a hotel room with a Do Not Disturb sign hung on the door. Lovers mate in full sight, fully clothed. Whispers and smiles swirl around them like honeybees, protecting their intimacy from passers-by. Sometimes, a woman will glance up from her lovers’ conversation but though her face is caught by the streetlight, she doesn’t see you walking by.
Getting older and still not down here.

misslyn

Feb 28, 2007, 5:03 PM

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Oh that's just delicious! Thanks, Jonna. Here's my fave-

Every once in awhile, it’s just the pink prick of bougainvilla, the hollow drum of the ceiba tree, the swishing miniskirts of palm trees with long legs, the flaming flowers of the flamboyanes, and the yellow dripping lluvia de oro and its rain of gold.

Lyn