The Eye of the Needle:
Bella Akhmadulina Day,
April 10, 2011

Henna
Tatiana Ambrose

Plant grain mashed with rain,
extracts magic on my palm-
the painting of pastoral blossoms.

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The Eye of the Needle

This bar welcomes dromedaries, malcontents and jewels in the world. And ghosts and other travelers. And the Russians.

About This Eye

The Camel Saloon has been blessed and enriched by the poetry, art and photography submitted by the women who have danced through the doors of this establishment.

My favorite poetess is Bella Akhmadulina, whose major works were written in Russia during the Soviet decades of that nation's long history and who passed away late last year.

Her wiki biography can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Akhmadulina

I especially like her poem Volcanoes, in particular the verse W.H. Auden translated as:

What future did you assume,
What were you thinking of and whom
When you leaned your elbow thus
Thoughtlessly on Vesuvius?

This edition of The Eye of the Needle, the third in a continuing series of special issues, celebrates life in the words and images of the women friends of The Camel Saloon along with forgotten voices of poetesses past, and is published upon Bella's first posthumous birthday of April 10, 2011.

Previous Eyes have celebrated the Fourth of July and Jack Kerouac. These editions can be found here:

Don't Tread on Me: July 4, 2010 http://camelsaloonneedle.blogspot.com/

Jack Kerouac Day, October 21, 2010
http://camelsaloonneedle2.blogspot.com/

My thanks to all who contributed to this event.

Russell Streur
Barkeep
The Camel Saloon

Contributors

A.J. Huffman (3)
Alison L. Peoples (1)
Anna Akhmatova (1)
Bobbi Sinha-Morey (1)
Carmen Rabil-Eichman (2)
Carmen Taggart (2)
Cath Barton (3)
Claudia Rey (3)
Emma Eden Ramos (1)
Joan McNerney (1)
Jordyn Coats (1)
Josephine Preston Peabody (1)
Karen Ostrom (1)
Kate Rahimzadeh (3)
Kathy Boles-Turner (1)
KJ Hannah Greenberg (1)
Lisa Zaran (3)
Lola Ridge (1)
M. Elaine Moore (2)
Margot Longreen (1)
Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass (1)
Pat St. Pierre (1)
Rachel J. Fenton (5)
Sadie Harris (1)
Sandra Davies (1)
Sarah Anne Stinnet (2)
Shelley Ontis (1)
Sue Ellis (2)
Tatiana Ambrose (1)

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