Monday, October 22, 2007

Mister Lazarus

Dying/Is an art, like everything else.
Sylvia Plath

He sits on ancestral door
from where its eyes
eat a few dreams

can’t spring
into streets of world
its weak legs

its
tired eyes
read the Job's book.

J.T.Parreira

Sunday, October 21, 2007

L’étranger - Edmond Jabès (Egipto, 1912 - 1991)

La coquetterie des choses
à paraître ce qu’elles sont
Le monde est une coterie
L’étranger y a du mal à se faire entendre
On lui reproche gestes et langue
Et pour sa patiente courtoisie
récolte injures et menaces


La coquetería de las cosas
por parecer lo que son
El mundo es una conjura
Al extranjero le cuesta hacerse escuchar
Se le reprochan su gesto y su lengua
Y por su paciente cortesía
cosecha injurias y amenazas

(Versión de Norman González y Cristina Burneo)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Meeting


The first time we met
was in coliseum books
you was sunk in
a chair reading
Jean-Paul Sartre
I said
“what are you reading”
You said
“Sartre”
“you need nausea for this"
I said
(Thomas-John Parr)

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Scottish Poets ...Edwin Morgan


The Loch Ness Monster's Song

Sssnnnwhuffffll?
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl -
gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm.
Hovoplodok - doplodovok - plovodokot - doplodokosh?
Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok!
Zgra kra gka fok!
Grof grawff gahf?
Gombl mbl bl -
blm plm,
blm plm,
blm plm,
blp