Author Archives: saaribampo

A pig is not a fence

Posted on July 21, 2019

A pig is not a fence. The pig is in the fence. This is one way to learn Spanish: looking at a pig in a fence. I say cerdo. I mean cerco. This causes mirth amongst the Spanish speakers in … Continue reading →

Posted in The Occasional Poem

On a Sunday

Posted on July 12, 2019

On a Sunday in mid-May, I went to the weekly organ recital at Westminster Abbey in London. On a Sunday three weeks later, I went to hear a trio on fiddle, drums, and guitar play Nordic, Celtic, and Old-time music … Continue reading →

Posted in West Saari Road

Flag Day, June 14, 2019

Posted on June 15, 2019
Posted in West Saari Road

Gait

Posted on June 1, 2019

Bones, tendons, ligaments, nerves, heart, blood, the gauzy envelope of skin, cerebellum, signals firing along the rail line of the spine—just some of the exquisite processes working in harmony that allow me to get out of bed in the morning … Continue reading →

Posted in Five Hundred Words or Less

Birding the Apocalypse In and Around Villa Juárez, Sonora

Posted on March 31, 2019

Day One, March 5, 2019 We left Alamos at 9 a.m. on our adventure to the Sea of Cortez estuaries, isolated igneous hills, towns, villages, and the raped coastal plain of Sonora. We stopped in Navojoa to shop for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Mexico