Steinway & Sons

Three legs of the Steinway
raise a symphony of birds
in the veins above of the floor

the elegant legs
of the Steinway
as a woman

whom we listened
slowly
in its black dress.

(J.T.Parreira)

Mondrian's tree

At day when the Piet Mondrian’s tree
was of the red size of the branches
the wind
entangled in the calm branches
Mondrian shows to us
the interior of nothing.

J.T.Parreira

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

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)

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)

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

Babel

In all the words only had a language

Peter Bruegel the Elder, he painted

Babel,

just built between the words and men

of armed arms

The confusion, that

Bruegel did not see

in its piramide unfinished

with a cloud blow

What it brought the water

to the eyes of the men?

Now the whole world had one language.

Thomas-John Parr