3 December 2009. Steam rising from blue pool, gray skies...
An offering--in the sense of--an offering. A pan of parched corn--from the maizal... Gaucho birds ready and waiting, their varied hats a sampler of 19th century lore--the sombrero pampeano, estilo Santa Fe, or a flying boina (beret, as it were)--and a Churchill top hat--una galera--borrowed somewhere from the wardrobe of Europe, but assuming a more countrified vigor on the Argentine plains. On the right--no known name--a kind of trucated felt cone, nondescript, pulled snug... (panza de burro?) And, finally, the one of my own--courtesy of lids.com, a contemporary brand. Cotton and hemp, knit fast on the seams...
Whirling...
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