Saturday, April 6, 2024
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JOHN SINCLAIR ~
Mr. Sinclair was greeted by his wife, Leni, when he was released from prison in December 1971.Andrew Sacks/SaxPix
1941 ~ 2024
TOMAS TRANSTROMER, "April and Silence" ~
April and Silence
Spring lies forsaken.
The velvet-dark ditch
crawls by my side
without refections.
The only thing that shines
are yellow flowers.
I am cradled in my shadow
like a violin
in its black case.
The only thing I want to say
glimmers out of reach
like the silver
at the pawnbroker's.
___________________________
The Sorrow Gondola
Tomas Transtromer
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
LUDMILA ULITSKAYA ~
Body of the Soul
BY LUDMILA ULITSKAYA ; TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY
Yale University Press
2023
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
A DREAM IN THE CREAM ~
a selection
_____________________
O the purity
of the aloneness
of pulling off socks
Dark kitchen
but the lights of
a distant bridge
An old woman
breaking teeth
off a comb
Ignorant of their own souls
monkeys swinging
between temples
Possibly the
largest shell on the beach
and it looks like a shoe
Being sad
and pissing
at the same time
During lunch
stories about
sandwiches
Making
dying flowers glow
the moon's best intentions
Dusting a mirror
she takes a moment
to check her eyebrows
Small bronze head with big nose
holding down
take-out menus
Garden diary
all that's left
of the garden
Such an elegant rainfall
even the dog refuses
to shake it off
Cold summer rain
piercing my shirt
slipping between ribs
A small grave of sorrows
on one branch
in one bird
____________________
Ronald Baatz
A Dream in the Cream
Black Fig Press, 2021
Monday, April 1, 2024
CLEMENS STARCK ~
November 30, 1937 ~ March 21, 2024
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DIARIES OF EXILE ~
DIARY OF EXILE III
April 25
This year the blackbirds are the tiles
on the roof of summer.
Fear gropes like the blind man's hand
for the handle of the door.
You sit on a rock
You're calm because you're tired
you're good because you were afraid
you forget easily because you don't want to remember
you don't forget.
May 1
The soldier crushed his cigarette into the ground.
How easily every single thing can be crushed.
Across the water, Laviro.
Who is it who said: the women reapers
with the swallows' scythe?
Cover your ears with your hands.
Shame. Shame.
May 3
The people sit in the sun
they take off their jackets
their boots become tight
the soldiers' armpits sweat.
You rub a little thyme between your fingers.
This is how we slowly slowly age
above the second death.
May 4
Someone is smoking beside the guardhouse.
The evening star looks out above the mountain
as if it's knocked on the wrong door.
The utility poles darken
they stretch full length
afraid they'll bend.
May 5
They owe us a lot.
If we don't get it back
we'll owe that too.
The floorboards are moldy from the damp
the windows warped the panes broken
dirtied sheets loose boots
the bread has no odor
the people have grown very thin
like saints.
Concentration camp
Makronisos, 1950
_______________________
Yannis Ritsos
Diaries of Exile
translated by Karen Emmerich & Edmund Kelley
Archipelago Books, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
VERMONTER ~
M. Emmet Walsh in “Blood Simple” (1984), the first feature film by Joel and Ethan Coen.
River Road Productions/Circle — Sunset Boulevard, via Corbis, via Getty Images
1935 ~ 2024
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