O demasiado sublunar, o demasiado poco. ¡Zas! Yo era un mendigo… Un ¡zas! es el sublime acontecer. Sentado en la acera, me apoyo en una mano, con la otra pimplo. Tengo más clase que los dos caballeretes del Déjeuner sur l’herbe, de Manet. (A la altura de mi visual, el mundo es ptolomeico. Detenta […]
All day long I walked with the bundle in my hands. It looked like a hobo’s sack for clothes and food, deformed but manageable. It smelled like food. When I gave some food to a woman a head fell from it, black and big, with big lips, slightly pointed, a woman’s. Since she didn’t […]
Todo el día anduve con el hato en las manos. Parecía un hatillo de ropa y comida, deforme pero manejable. Olía a comida. Cuando le di comida a una mujer cayó de él una cabeza, negra y grande y de labios grandes, ligeramente picuda, de mujer. Como no tenía cuerpo la llevé a un […]
At first poems are somewhat bipolar. Then they make a pact and save themselves and they are read. In the end sometimes poems have red hands, a lump for every eye, serosity in their throat. Women condemned to a gulag of clinical analysis. The moon is white and the one who sees it is […]
Al principio los poemas son un tanto bipolares. Luego pactan y se salvan y logran ser leídos. Al final a veces los poemas tienen las manos rojas, un huevo por ojo, una serosidad en la garganta. Mujeres condenadas al gulag de las analíticas. La luna es blanca y el que la ve es cojo. […]
James Richardson recorded live at Bates College, January 23, 2012.
For [you], I cast [the world] –eye level agave has its own wrapping / is its own wrapping between the wrapping and itself, nothing but itself groove the blades make \ embossing self with self plums jostle clean in a glass bowl of water leafblade or plum–yes, closer, like that pale green crown, glass bowl […]
You: You hold out your hand to receive it but it spills over, your hand already full with it. You: Face to face with it, you tell it you’re looking for it. You: You won’t feel it as it’s happening, but friends study your face for what’s different, ask if you got a haircut. You: […]