Images from Baronia di Siniscola 97: Carnival 2019

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To an absent young friend

Alice Dunbar's visionary verses from her novel "A Carnival Jangle" of 1895:

There is a merry jangle of bells in the air,
an all-pervading sense of jester's noise,
and the flaunting vividness of royal colours.
The streets swarm with humanity,
humanity in all shapes, manners, forms,
laughing, pushing, jostling, crowding,
a mass of men and women and children,
as varied and assorted in their several
individual peculiarities as ever a crowd
that gathered in one locality since the days of Babel.

... a brilliant Tuesday in February,
when the very air gives forth
an ozone intensely exhilarating,
making one long to cut capers.

The buildings are a blazing mass
of royal purple and golden yellow,
national flags, bunting, and decorations
that laugh in the glint of the Midas sun.

The streets are a crush
of jesters and maskers,
Jim Crows and clowns,
ballet girls and Mephistos,
Indians and monkeys;
of wild and sudden flashes of music,
of glittering pageants and comic ones,
of befeathered and belled horses;
a dream of colour and melody
and fantasy gone wild in an
effervescent bubble of beauty
that shifts and changes
and passes kaleidoscope-like
before the bewildered eye."

Reading from 'A Carnival Jangle'
by Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935)
read by Charlene Modeste for Librivox
https://librivox.org/reader/8868

Amor Pirata by Jeris
(c) 2014 Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license
http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/47174
Ft: Cheech Stavele (miguel), Documento $onoro/Gabriel Versiani

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