Barão Reports –
The House
The house is
simple, in the real sense of the word, simple as sand waiting for tides to get
washed or under a burning sun. There are no additions! The walls stand solid
against the bleak of the day,
their skin enjoys
the touch of a hand, a leg, an eye exploring its whiteness dimmed by wood
twisted shutters, inviting for meditation while the body vanishes into
plenitudes of salted water. The floor, made of antique terra cotta bricks, feels
like a permeable membrane connecting us to the ground.
The rooms are
small. My bedroom has a huge bed which fits the room. No door, no nightstand,
just the bed. I enjoy it a lot! Lying on this bed and looking into the light
that comes through the single slim window opposite to it. The window stays
always open, with the blinds half shut; works as a sound box, collecting every
little sound generated in the close neighborhood, to be reinterpreted in the
shadow of the moment.
Once we bought a bench,
all wood and rustic like, strong. There was no place for a couch, so this
seemed like a real alternative. We placed it in the biggest room and in the
warmest nights we move it outside so we can enjoy a fresh breeze.
It seems this bench
used to serve the slaughtering of the pig.
© 2014, José Eduardo
Coelho
Vivid, delightful picture of "The House". Cosy and Mediterranean..the lights and the sounds all conveying this memory of the south.
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