WORD AGAINST THE WORD Of all the words, ours are the most vulnerable, even if they are unquestionably in the mouth. No one asks, no one violent. They kiss the stars, they do not touch the ground. Other words, waving his arms and legs, skulls filled, inflamed throat. A knife in the back, translates as caress, a kick …
Read More »DAYS IN WHITE: Poetry, by Ingeborg Bachmann
DAYS IN WHITE These days, I get up with birches, and forehead restart interlock the strands of wheat, in front of a mirror of ice. Amalgamated to my breath, sfiocca milk: so early, has easy foam. And where the glass I fogged with breath, seems painted by a child finger, yet your name: innocence! After a long time. These days, …
Read More »WHAT I WANT FOR THE ADVENT GIVE YOU: Poetry, by Christine Busta
WHAT I WANT FOR THE ADVENT GIVE YOU An organ sound antidote to the gloomy morning, my breath against the cold wind of the day, snowflakes as a promise of stars at night and a light to the path of those who had given up for lost, Angel, who in the middle of the night announces the rebirth of love. …
Read More »AGAINST TIME: Poetry, by Louis Untermeyer
AGAINTS TIME The event stands clear of history. Originality is not in ranks of trees, but in this tree; and every fruit is the first fruit, shapely and absolute. Events afe individuaI as pain. This dar, this trouble, fingering rain, has never been. Beauty comes clean, in the cock’s rusty vowels or in sky-searching towers, that lift themselves light as …
Read More »THE TARGET FOR THE FLOWER OF A TREE: Poetry, by Mila Haugová
THE TARGET FOR THE FLOWER OF A TREE The anguish of the objects set aside – the first sketch alone does not cover the neglect – yet you are entire, the variable surfaces of objects close – the anatomy of the periphery: the skeleton of a leaf and is immersed in afloat deceived by the depth – I do not …
Read More »THE SHEET: Poetry, by Štefan Strážay
THE SHEET Love, whenever whiten the soul like a room. It overlaps the previous one on the other, on the light blue away, with tiny flowers arrive poppy field, then the light yellow with roses. And somewhere, in a corner all peels off. Petals as you browse the layers of paint, and if I tried to scratch with a fingernail, …
Read More »WITH ALTERNATE KEY: Poetry, by Paul Celan
WITH ALTERNATE KEY With alternate key, you schiudi the house where the snow whirls of things left unsaid. Depending on the blood that oozes from eye, mouth and ear, varying your key. Vary your key, you change the word which is granted twirl slap. Depending on the wind that pushes you away, it coagulates around the word, the snow. (Paul …
Read More »THE DISAPPEARED: Poetry, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
THE DISAPPEARED The disappeared as the earth swallowed them up, was the air? As the shores of the sea innumerable; however, lay not in the arena, but in anything, ranks forgotten. And often hand to hand, as the minutes of us closer together, but no memory, not registered, not decipherable in the dust but disappeared, their names, the spoons, the …
Read More »CHERRIES: Poetry, by Günter Grass
CHERRIES When love on stilts, teases the gravel paths, and up to the trees arrive, I’d love to recognize I cherries as cherries, not shorter arms, using stairs which always missing some peg, live cascaticcia fruit, stewed fruit . Sweet and sweeter, almost black; blackbirds make dreams so red. Who gives kisses and who, when the love on stilts, to …
Read More »RAGS: Poetry, by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
RAGS Well, in another reality, it hurts my mother alone. At first they were harmless superficial injuries, but after a few days they festered, so she had more and more need of sheets, to bandage wounds. Soon, all the house-which did not exist in any form – it was filled with dirty rags, even under my pillow. I have learned …
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