It's only seven and the table is ready.
A white and embroidered tablecloth covers it gleaming .
In the middle, the delicate blue glass, with three pansies colour lavender and a little yellow face...
On each side an elegant candelabrum with a pale candle, waiting...
The white dishes spin carefully keeping their place ... the cutlery, aligned according to the future use, is sparkling in competition with the glasses ...
In the bronze table already expect the wines, the ice bucket, bread and fruit, this one arranged in a baroque way in a old copper bowl ...
It's only eight ...
Nine o'clock. The candles are anxious ... A soft perfume emanates from a jasmine floating in water. It plays with the music that is also expecting...
The lights have been turned on, also the blue one that illuminates the tree of the stones.
Ten ... candles fade away slowly ...
The table is silent. The jasmine still perfumes but it does not play with the music any more...
The wines fly to the cellar ...humbly retires the bread ...the courageous fruits still dare to shine, but the pansies* seem sad...
It only remains to wait ...
Just wait one more day ...
twenty-one hours more.
Arelisa Beatriz Romero
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| Vaso con pensamientos- Vase with pansies- |
Notes for the english version:
Clove of garlic. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_sativum
Dandelion:See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum_officinale
** In this text there is also a wordplay with the word pensamiento , which can may be referred in Spanish indistinctly to a flower : pansy, or to a thought, from verb to think.
Posted with the signature of Arelisa Suoboda in November 1998, Supplement to the number 15 of Ciencias Milenarias, Editorial EDISER - www.croattodesign.com.ar. Protected by copyright .
The painting Vaso con pensamientos- Vase with pansies-, was not part of the original edition. It is protected by copyright and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission of the artist.
